tapering point
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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)
