Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A point or sharp instrument; especially, such an instrument used in writing; in the middle ages, a style used with ivory tablets or for writing on a soft surface, as of wax.
- n. Any sharp-pointed thing resembling a pencil, as the pistil of a plant. Also pointed.
- n. A pavement formed of materials of a lozenge shape, or of squares set diagonally.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. See pointal.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a tool used by an engraver
Etymologies
- Blend of point and voxel? (Wiktionary)
Examples
“A greffe is properly called a pointel to write in tables of wax, by which he suffered death.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pointel’.
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Writing
graphoanalysis, agraphia, agraphic, anorthography, logagraphia, cipher, code, inscribe, penmanship, cursive, Palmer method, calligraphy and 100 more...
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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
pustule, purulence, pushful, purser, purpureal, putative, purpure, purpresture, purloin, purline, purlieu, purlicue and 1766 more...
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Finer Points
Objects like needles and spines whose tips are drawn to a fine point.
poynet, prickpunch, spine, needle, pin, baton, glochid, quill, beak, stylet, trocar, harelip-needle and 66 more...
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I'm especially fond of ones written by Charles Sanders Peirce.
theodolite, illusion, buckie, frank, abstract-concrete, semidiagrammatic, object-object, vortex-filament, dod, parrock, cobler, weather-box and 354 more...
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