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Branding iron   /brˈændɪŋ ˈaɪərn/   Listen
Branding iron

noun
1.
Implement used to brand live stock.  Synonym: iron.






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"Branding iron" Quotes from Famous Books



... sticks was sent to each village and each man was made to cut notches in these sticks up to ten to show how many children, or pigs, or chickens he had. In some of the villages so my uncle told me, the supervisor had a branding iron made with which he had branded on the tally sticks the figure of a pig, or a house, or a chicken or whatever ...
— The Boy With the U.S. Census • Francis Rolt-Wheeler

... hot branding iron makes the calf bawl lustily and struggle to free itself. The mother cow sometimes resents the punishment of her offspring by charging and chasing the men who are doing the branding; or, if she is of a less fiery disposition, shows her displeasure by a look of reproach as much ...
— Arizona Sketches • Joseph A. Munk



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