punt

noun,  a flat-bottomed shallow boat, square at both ends; (now chiefly) spec. a long narrow boat of this kind propelled by means of a long pole thrust against the bed of a waterway, and used on inland waters, esp. as a pleasure boat, as a ferry over short distances, or for fishing (“punt, n.1.” OED)

“They had an old punt and they’d row across. And this thing was leaky.”

“My brother and I, we had a punt, and we used to go down along underneath the willows, down there into the marsh. There’s a marsh down there. And there was an old dock, part of an old dock in there, and so we’d hunt up snakes and things like that.”

“It got to the point where they eloped. Well, they’re not that far from the American side, but Smith’s lived right down on the south side of Wolfe Island there, so he took their punt or skiff, and the two of them rode over to Milan’s Bay and got married over there.”

“Did they have their own sailing boat, or they used one of the lake boats?”
“Just a punt, just probably their own skiff. And the wind was right, they could put up a sail.”

“We drive up to the ramp in the boat. So the boat’s in, and the tug was there, the punt’s tug. Len was there with the tug too.”

“Tom had a punt they used to row over to Garden Island to salvage the winter wood and bring all the steel pins home and sell them for scrap iron.”

“There was an old punt that was laying there.”