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
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
Spikelets 5–12-flowered, few and scattered; flowering glume oblong-lanceolate, acute, shorter than the long tapering point of the palet.—Wet places, Penn. to Maine; rather rare.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
The lower end has a sharp tapering point, 5/8ths of an inch in length.
From Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Talbot, Frederick Arthur Ambrose
