Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name)
5. equipment
6. [equipment by process]
7. [marking tools and equipment]

Narrower term/s

• metalworking punches [NP][+]
  • backing-out punches
  • counterpunches
  • dapping punches
  • drift punches
  • hand lever punches
  • prick punches
  • scalloping punches (metalworking tools)
  • fore punches
• rivet sets [NP]
• countersinks [NP]
• woodworking punches [NP][+]
  • carvers' punches
  • handrail punches
  • nail sets
  • shingle punches
  • starting punches
  • veneer punches

Anotations

Scope note:

Tools having a shaped tip at one end and a blunt butt end at the other, which is usually struck by a hammer. They are used by applying repeated sudden impact or by continuous pressure to make indentations, pricks, or sometimes 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. An example of the application of punches is in medieval altarpieces.