Definition of "pontil" [pon•til]

• See punty. (noun)

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• ""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.""
• "The cute little pontil scar measured one cubic centimeter, the same, on the average, as the human navel that it resembled."
• "On the bottom of the bottle was a scar not unlike an umbilicus, where an iron pontil rod had held the hot, freshly blown bottle while its neck was being shaped."