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 --
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.
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.
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.
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.
This is performed using a hot or very cold branding iron.
The finished forcible resembles more than anything a small branding iron.
He followed up the branding iron with using it, burning the branding into a white sheet of paper.
Like a branding iron, it matters which end one is holding.
