puntilion
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unknown.
Noun
[edit]puntilion (plural not attested)
- (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 […].