pontiln.

Brit.

/ˈpɒntɪl/, U.S.

/ˈpɑntɪl/,

/ˈpɑntl/

Forms: 1800s– pontil, 1800s puntel, 1800s puntil.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French pontil.

Etymology: < French pontil (1723 in this sense; also as †pointil ), literally ‘little point’ < pointe point n.¹ + -il , diminutive suffix (see -el suffix²). Compare Spanish puntel (1598 or earlier in this sense). Compare also (in different sense) Middle French pontil a lead strip used to fasten each of the different panes in stained glass windows (16th cent. in this sense; literally ‘little bridge’; < Old Occitan pontil ( < pont pont n.¹ + -il , diminutive suffix: see -el suffix²)). Compare earlier punty n.Compare earlier use of ponteglo in this sense (apparently < Italian ponteglo):1788 Chambers's Cycl. (new ed.) at Glass They dip an iron rod, or ponteglo, in the melting-pots.

Glass-making.

Esp. in the manufacture of crown glass: an iron rod used to hold or twirl molten glass for the purpose of shaping. Also called punty.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > glass-making equipment > [noun] > shaping equipment

ferret1662

punty1662

puntilion1665

pucellas1701

casting-table1728

marble1745

pinching tongs1765

borsella1823

punt1823

marver1832

pontil1832

punto1839

working tube1841

bullion-bar1852

blowing-iron1855

bullion-rod1862

blowpipec1865

pointel1865

gadget1868

casting-slaba1877

casting-plate1881

glass-cutter1881

sand core1894

polissoir1897

pontil rod1934

blowing-machine1940

blowing-pipe-

blowing-tube-

1832 G. R. Porter Treat. Manuf. Porcelain & Glass 171 At this stage another implement, called a punt, or pontil, is brought into use.

1869 G. Fownes Man. Elem. Chem. (ed. 10) 345 If an open mouthed vessel is to be made, an iron rod, called a pontil or puntil is..applied to the bottom of the flask, to which it thus serves as a handle.

1918 P. Marson Glass 83 The servitor has now done his part of the work, and the glass is handed to the workman. It is then cracked off, and the foot caught by a spring clip arrangement attached to a pontil, called a ‘gadget’.

1961 E. M. Elville Collector's Dict. Glass 190/1 In the eighteenth century.., the foot of a three-piece glass was attached to a ‘pontil’, for the finishing operation in the chair. The pontil is a solid rod of iron about the same length but not quite so thick as the blow-iron.

2001 Oxoniensia 65 371 This example [of a linen smoother] is semicircular with a diameter of c. 80 mm.; there is a central scar where the stalk or pontil has been removed.

Compounds

pontil mark n. a scar left on a piece of blown glass after the removal of the pontil rod.

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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > glass and glass-like materials > [noun] > glass > marks or imperfections in

thread1593

streak1807

seed1821

stripe1823

bull's-eye1832

stria1832

tear1832

bullion1834

wreath1839

sand-hole1867

bullion-point1881

pontil mark1923

oil spot1962

saliva1969

1923 C. Van Vechten Blind Bow-boy vii. 130 The Duke grinned at the possibility as he lifted his glass automatically to search for the rough pontil mark.

1968 Canad. Antiques Collector Oct. 27/2 The long window of crown glass in one of the farm buildings where the pontil marks are evident in each pane.

2003 Intelligencer (Pennsylvania) 20 Nov. e2 Sometimes, on better pieces of blown glass, this pontil mark is polished away, leaving a small, smooth, circular convex indentation.

pontil rod n. = main sense.

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