branding irons
Ranch ownership tools
Branding irons are metal tools heated and pressed against a surface to burn a permanent mark.
Ranchers use them to mark livestock with ownership symbols.
Historically, branding irons marked enslaved people, criminals, and heretics.
The tool consists of a long handle and a shaped end that forms the design: The ranch's branding irons bore the family's cattle brand.
- stampMark-making device
- cowboyMounted cattle herder
- cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
- markVisible impression or sign
- red-hotHeated to glowing
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