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
Achillea, 160Acnida, 126 A-cu�min-ate, ending in a prolonged tapering point.
From Seeds of Michigan Weeds Bulletin 260, Michigan State Agricultural College Experiment Station, Division of Botany, March, 1910 by Beal, W. J. (William James)
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 Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)
Cold Chisels.—A cold chisel should never be ground to a long, tapering point, like a wood chisel.
From Practical Mechanics for Boys by Zerbe, James Slough
