tapering point
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An ideal point would have a hard bottom of sand or clay, an extensive, broad, shallow flat with weed or shell beds, and on the clean, tapering point there would be periodic, well-defined dropoffs.
From Time Magazine Archive
Each kalamos he whittled to a tapering point and handed with ink to his master, who forthwith wrote out the accounts of his battles and of his business deals.
From Time Magazine Archive
His body followed, finding entrance through the crevice amidships, so to speak, where it broadened out to some three feet across from the tapering point of the lowest corner.
From Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl by Isabel Katherine Hornibrook
The smooth tapering point is rarely wanting, in which case the extremity presents a blunt end, the spiral ridges running to the end.
From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by A. P. (Andrew Price) Morgan
Those sharpened only at one end, at the other were either curved to a tapering point, or spheroidally rounded off, so as to serve the purpose of a hammer for breaking or pounding.
From History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell
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