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
I have observed in ten cases shoulder-stripes abruptly truncated at the lower end, with the anterior angle produced into a tapering point, precisely as has been figured in the dun Devonshire pony.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. by Darwin, Charles
Mass of capillitium and spores, golden to ochre-yellow; elaters long, simple, 6–8 mic. in thickness, ending in a smooth tapering point, 3–7 mic. in length; spirals four or five, usually smooth, rarely spinulose.
From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)
Hold the file flat on the stone, so as to get a gradually tapering point, and turn continually.
From A Treatise on Etching by Lalanne, Maxime
