tapering point
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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
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
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 in the above dun Devonshire pony.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 by Darwin, Charles
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
A sharpening; termination in a sharp point; a tapering point.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
