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
He gets a fine cotton fabric woven into the shape of a cylinder, with a tapering point.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887 by Various
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
