4. A prostitute; a strumpet. [Obsoles.] Shak.

||Pun"ka (?), n. [Hind. pankh fan.] A machine for fanning a room,

||usually a movable fanlike frame covered with canvas, and suspended

||from the ceiling. It is kept in motion by pulling a cord. [Hindostan]

||[Written also punkah.] Malcom.