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
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
The leaves, you see, are long, lengthened to a tapering point, serrated--or notched like a saw--at the edge, and of a bright and nearly pure green.
From Among the Trees at Elmridge by Church, Ella Rodman
