tapering point
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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
The line of the heavy beak cut the opening between the tapering point of the Lido and the misty outline of Tre Porti.
From Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories by Herrick, Robert
Elaters cylindric, ending in a smooth tapering point.
From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)
As to the Apex, the following terms express the principal variations:— Acuminate, Pointed, or Taper-pointed, when the summit is more or less prolonged into a narrowed or tapering point; as in Fig.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa
