punty

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"You shall see, for here is a pot just opened, and this man with the long iron rod, called a pontil, or punty, in his hand, is about to skim it."

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  1. noun An iron rod on which molten glass is handled when being shaped and worked. Also called pontil.

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  • "You shall see, for here is a pot just opened, and this man with the long iron rod, called a pontil, or punty, in his hand, is about to skim it." —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864
  • It was not one of those punty ovals or Cheshire-cheese flats, or curly-sided things that enables one to say who is in a house and who is not, by a glance at the hats in the entrance, but it was just a quiet, round hat, without anything remarkable, either in the binding, the lining, or the band, but still it was a very becoming hat when Sponge had it on. —  Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour
 

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  1. Probably from French pontil; see punt4.

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  1. Also puntee, ponty, etc.: see pontil.
 

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