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
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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.
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The line of the heavy beak cut the opening between the tapering point of the Lido and the misty outline of Tre Porti.
From Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories by Herrick, Robert
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
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)