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Definition of Pointy
1. coming to a sharp, tapering end [adj POINTIER, POINTIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pointy
Literary usage of Pointy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Junius by Junius (1772)
"... but for the illegality of meddling with a pointy on. which they have no legal
authority to. dc- »..' "•-'-• ' • .VT . ..."
2. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison (1891)
"Í. Spongy excrescence. pointy farther on. Funicle, n. I. Fibre, filament, small
cord, small ligature. 2. (Bot.) Species of cellular cryptogam or ..."
3. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1906)
"The stock is thus combed, or carded, open, and deposited on the teeth of the
worker; and, as this roll revolves, it is brought around to the pointy,, ..."
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