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punty, ponty Glass-making.|ˈpʌntɪ|
Forms: 7 ponte, 7–9 -ee, 9 punty, -ee, ponty.
[app. ad. F. pontil: see pontil.]
1. An iron rod used in glass-blowing: see quots. Called also punt, punto, pointel, pontil.
1662Merrett in App. to tr. Neri's Art of Glass 364 Ponte is the Iron to stick the Glass at the bottom for the more convenient fashioning the neck of it. Ibid. 365 Tower is the Iron on which they rest their Pontee when they scald the Glass. 1843G. Dodd Days at Factories 269 The whole was transferred from the tube to a rod called the ‘punty’. 1869Routledge's Ev. Boy's Ann. 483 A long iron rod called a ponty. 1876Barff Glass & Silicates 90 The workman sits during this operation in a seat with arms, laying the pontee on them. 1883H. J. Powell Glass-Making x. 56 The working rod or ‘puntee’..is used for holding a vessel during the later stages of manipulation, by means of a seal of glass. 1890W. J. Gordon Foundry 133 A lad standing ready with an iron-holder, called a ‘punty’, slips it on to the end of the bottle... Held by the punty the bottle is taken to the leader of the party.
2. A round hollow made on a glass object to remove the mark made in breaking it off the punty-rod; hence, a small circular or oval hollow made as an ornamentation on glass.
1884Knight Dict. Mech. Supp. s.v., A glass decanter..is said to be cut in punties when the ornamentation consists of dots or cup-like depressions, usually circular but sometimes oval.
3. Comb., as punty mark; punty-iron, -rod, † -stake, see quots.; punty-sticker, a workman who sticks a quantity of melted glass on the punty.
1662Merrett in App. to tr. Neri's Art of Glass 364 Pontee stake is the Iron whereon the Servitors place the Irons from the Masters when they have knock'd off the broken pieces of Glass. 1839Ure Dict Arts 582 The workman having..taken possession of the globe by its bottom or knobbed pole attached to his punty rod,..carries it to another circular opening, where he exposes it to the action of moderate flame. 1849A. Pellatt Glass Making 101 Another workman then gathers upon a ponty-iron a small piece of Glass. 1890Cent. Dict., Ponty-sticker. 1909Julian A. Osler in Let. 3 Mar., To finish the glass neatly, a round hollow is made—not primarily as an ornament, but to remove the punty-mark. |