sharp-cornered

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I pull forward one of my two blank cards and write in big block letters an unbendable, sharp-cornered David-word: RULE.

From "Rules" by Cynthia Lord

Figure 117 represents a key with a sharp-cornered step in it.

From Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught by Rose, Joshua

Their oars were lancet-shaped as far as the middle, and had a protruding sharp-cornered point.

From In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" by Kloss, C. Boden

My father held fast to the sharp-cornered saint and prophet, though somewhat excoriated in the association.

From The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe by Hosmer, James Kendall

Each of them was originally a portion of brick-clay, on which the scribe indented the flights of arrowheads with some sharp-cornered instrument, after which the document was made permanent by baking.

From A History of Science — Volume 4 by Williams, Henry Smith