punchbrook

Updated: June 9, 2025

Though not a very aged person ourself, we have heard allusions to festive occasions where, metaphorically, the punch was said to "flow in streams." Possibly, from "streams" came "brooks," hence, "Punchbrook," which, under the strange mutations of time, has become "Pinchbrook."

Oliver Optic - The Soldier Boy; or, Tom Somers in the Army: A Story of the Great Rebellion