punty

[ puhn-tee ]

noun

, plural pun·ties.

1. an iron rod used in glassmaking for handling the hot glass.

punty

/ ˈpʌntɪ /

noun

1. a long iron rod used in the finishing process of glass-blowing Also calledpontil

Word History and Origins

Origin of punty¹

First recorded in 1655–65; variant of pontil

Word History and Origins

Origin of punty¹

C17: see pontil

Example Sentences

This punty is passed from one crystal-maker to another and from workshop to workshop until a monochrome crystal sprue is fashioned, which will serve to form the canes that will in turn produce the millefiori motif.

From Forbes

A crystal-worker takes a gob of molten crystal to which a second craftsmen applies his punty, then distances himself as far as the temperature of the material allows, pulling or drawing with him a several meter-long, thin, solid and cylindrical thread measuring just a few millimeters in diameter, colored or made up of a bundle of different colors, which will then be cut when cold into 10-mm long sections and placed vertically inside a cast-iron bowl, where they form what appears to be a flowerbed.

From Forbes

"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."

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg