tapering point
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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
No simple thing, approaching leisurely and afoot, to send that tapering point straight to the tiny mark.
From The Valiants of Virginia by Rives, Hallie Erminie
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 has been figured in the dun Devonshire pony.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. by Darwin, Charles
The first tubes that I used were bits of glass tube about a centimeter diameter, and simply drawn out to a tapering point.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 by Various
