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n. - A tool used by an engraver.

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Usage examples (6)
  • I have seen single and small roses without any smell; and another kind of rose with four white petals, which in its smell, chives, and pointal, differed in nothing from...
  • Yet, as fascinating as the foregoing sketch of mingled influences is, these surely were for Kafka no more than gratifying corroborations of what he already knew first-hand from...
  • • The piftiUumy pointal, or female organ, adheres to the fruit, and is that part appropriated for the reception of the pollen, fpoken of above.
  • The pointal is knobbed at top.
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