Pritchel

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A pritchel is a type of punch used in forging, particularly in making nail holes in horseshoes. The pritchel is held in an anvil by placing it in the anvil's pritchel hole. The horseshoe is then heated in a forge and hammered over the pritchel to punch a hole to accommodate the nails that hold the horseshoe on the horse's hoof.

[edit] Pritchel hole

A pritchel hole is a round hole in an anvil, used to hold tools that have round shanks. Pritchel tools are tools such as punches whose functions do not require them to be held at a particular orientation. A tapered square hole in an anvil is called a Hardy hole

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