tapering point

The perfection of the pencil depends upon this equality; the tapering point being produced simply by the attenuation of the tips.

The lines of the towers rise uncrossed by horizontal bar from ground to tapering point.

He gets a fine cotton fabric woven into the shape of a cylinder, with a tapering point.

The tree is felled and then hollowed to its full length, the ends being shaped to a tapering point.

Acuminate, Pointed, or Taper-pointed, when the summit is more or less prolonged into a narrowed or tapering point; as in Fig. 133.