Meaning

2 senses
  1. A ring-shaped or irregular scar on a glass object from where it was joined with a pontil or blowpipe. Common on bottles prior to the 1830s.

  2. The mark impressed over this scar by the glassblower.

Forms

plural: pontil marks
Singularpontil mark
Pluralpontil marks

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
punty markpunt markpontil scar

Word family

1 related words
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