puntyn.

1662 C. Merrett in tr. A. Neri Art of Glass App. 364 Ponte is the Iron to stick the Glass at the bottom for the more convenient fashioning the neck of it.

1662 C. Merrett in tr. A. Neri Art of Glass App. 365 Tower is the Iron on which they rest their Pontee when they scald the Glass.

1843 G. Dodd Days at Factories 269 The whole was transferred from the tube to a rod called the ‘punty’.

1883 H. J. Powell Princ. 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.

1890 W. 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.

1964 H. Hodges Artifacts iii. 58 Bowls and drinking glasses may be produced by first sticking the bulb to a solid iron rod, a punty (French pontil).

1991 Stained Glass Winter 264/2 (caption) A heated glass disk on the end of a punty, is attached to the end of the muff to carry it back to the glory hole where the ‘neck’ of the cylinder will be heated, flared, broken from the punty, scored, then reheated and flattened to make the sheet of glass.

a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 731/2 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.

1849 A. Pellatt Curiosities of Glass Making 101 Another workman then gathers upon a ponty-iron a small piece of Glass.

1889 Harper's Mag. July 261/2 These grinding-mills also remove the punty marks on tumblers, wineglasses, etc.

1909 J. 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.

1989 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald Jrnl. 7 May 38/3 A pontil is a glassmaker's mixing or working rod, and it leaves a mark or scar which has come to be known as a pontil or punty mark.

1839 A. Ure 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.

1958 H. Comstock Encycl. Amer. Antiques 285 Pontil mark, scar left on a completed vessel where it was snapped off the pontil or punty rod.

2005 Intelligencer (Doylestown, Pa.) 15 Jan. e2/5 The final shaping..was done while the craftsman manipulated the punty rod to which the glass was attached.

1662 C. Merrett in tr. A. Neri Art of Glass App. 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.

1736 W. King Toast i. 6/2 (note) All the Iron Instruments used by his Workmen, as Bars.., Pipes, Pontee Stakes, Shears..&c. were excellently well made.

1890 Cent. Dict. Ponty-sticker, a workman who affixes a quantity of blown glass to the ponty or pontil.