punches
- Term Type
Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Preferred Term
punches
- Details
Tools that, by repeated sudden impact or by continuous pressure, are used to make pricks, indentations, or perforations in various materials. They are usually in the form of a steel rod with an end that may take a variety of shapes used for marking, blanking, decoration, driving in nails, enlarging an existing hole, or cutting out pieces of a particular shape.
- Variations
punches (marking tools)
punch
poinçons
poinçon