tapering point
Example Sentences
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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
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
Sharp, and bright, and finely tempered it looked with its deadly, tapering point.
From The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English by Hawthorne, Julian
Mass of capillitium and spores orange or golden-yellow; elaters long, simple, 4–5 mic. in thickness, ending in a smooth tapering point, 5–8 mic. in length; spirals three or four, covered with numerous short acute spinules.
From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)
A sharpening; termination in a sharp point; a tapering point.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
