0 a long piece of metal with a special design at one end, used to burn an owner's mark on the skin of animals such as cows and horses
Like a branding iron, it matters which end one is holding.
He followed up the branding iron with using it, burning the branding into a white sheet of paper.
The finished forcible resembles more than anything a small branding iron.
This is performed using a hot or very cold branding iron.
Funk also had the gimmick at the time of carrying a branding iron with him to ringside and using it to brand his fallen opponents.
Initially, livestock branding was adopted to differentiate one person's cattle from another's by means of a distinctive symbol burned into the animal's skin with a hot branding iron.
Some ranches still heat branding irons in a wood or coal fire; others use an electric branding iron or electric sources to heat a traditional iron.
This is because hair is an excellent insulator, and must be removed so the extreme cold of the freeze branding iron can be applied directly to the skin.
