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
Leaves almost entire, with a very long, tapering point, a rounded and mostly oblique base, thin and smooth.
From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)
A tackle brings down the lower end of the yard to the deck, and serves to balance the lofty tapering point, while the sheet is secured to the lower after-corner of the sail.
From The Three Commanders by Dugdale, Thomas Cantrell
The leaves, you see, are long, lengthened to a tapering point, serrated--or notched like a saw--at the edge, and of a bright and nearly pure green.
From Among the Trees at Elmridge by Church, Ella Rodman
