Crossword-Solution: PONTIL 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

One of them was finishing a drinking-glass, rolling the pontil on the arms of the working-stool; another, a beetle-browed fellow, swung his long blow-pipe with its lump of glowing glass in a full circle, high in air and almost to touch the ground; another was at a 'bocca' in the low glare; all were busy, and the air was very hot and close.

While he warmed the end of his blow-pipe at the 'bocca' he looked to right and left to see where the working-stool and marver were placed, and to be sure that the few tools he needed were at hand, the pontil, the 'procello,'--that is, the small elastic tongs for modelling--and the shears.

Crown-glass, such as is used for window-panes, comes between the two; but that is not made here." "And when the glass is sufficiently boiled, what next?" "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." "What is there to skim off?" "Oh, there will be impurities, of course, however carefully the ingredients are prepared.

Thrusting the pontil far into the pot, the workman moved it gently from side to side, turning it at the same time, until he suddenly withdrew upon its point a large lump of glowing substance, which he shook off upon a smooth iron table standing near, called a marver, (that is, _marbre_,) in size and shape not unlike the largest of a nest of teapoys.

Here you see one just ready to be taken out." "He will drop it," cried Miselle, as another boy, wielding a pontil with a lump of melted glass at the end, darted before her, and, pressing this heated end against the bottom of the lantern, picked it up and carried it away, over his shoulder, as if he were a stray member of some torch-light procession.