puntilion

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Etymology

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Noun

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puntilion (plural not attested)

  1. (obsolete, glassblowing) A pontil. [17th–18th c.]
    • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia:
      These Balls were small, but exceeding thick bubbles of Glass, which being crack'd off from the Puntilion whilst very hot […] do thereby […] acquire a very porous and very brittle texture […].
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