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  • noun a round hole in an anvil designed to hold a pritchel or other round-shanked blacksmith tool

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from pritchel + hole

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  • Found this term while looking up bick on Wikipedia, which redirects to anvil: "The pritchel hole is a small round hole that is present on most modern anvils. Some anvils have more than one. It is used mostly for punching."

    It certainly sounds more salacious than it is. :) Also I really like the sentence "It is mostly used for punching."

    October 14, 2008