Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In farriery, a punch employed for making or enlarging the nailholes in a horseshoe, or for temporary insertion into a nail-hole to form a means of handling the shoe.
- n. An iron share fixed to a thick staff, used for making holes in the ground.
Wiktionary
- n. A metal punch or shaping tool with a round shank, designed to fit in a pritchel hole in an anvil
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A tool employed by blacksmiths for punching or enlarging the nail holes in a horseshoe.
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“Forge work includes making a forepunch, pritchel, rolled toe shoe, toe clip shoe, keg shoe, and egg bar, and working aluminum.”
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BrainyBabe A tool in the farrier's armoury: "A driven tool with a tapered, rectangular shaft which is used to punch, clean out, resize, or repitch nail holes in horseshoes. When punching a new nail hole, the pritchel is used only to punch through the bottom of the hole made by the forepunch and/or creaser or fuller. The pritchel should be used when steel horseshoes are at dull red or black heat." -- New Dictionary of Farrier Terms and Technical Language, published by Dave Millwater (There's a lot more there, if anyone else is curious.) Dec 28, 2008