SHARP-POINTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sharp-pointed mean? 

• SHARP-POINTED (adjective)
  The adjective SHARP-POINTED has 1 sense:

1. having a sharp point

  Familiarity information: SHARP-POINTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHARP-POINTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a sharp point

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

point (sharp end)

 Context examples 

It is a woman’s writing, done with a sharp-pointed pen, but the address is either done with another pen or by someone else.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I hate the sight of that sharp-pointed snout of his, which he wants to be ever poking into my affairs.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was going to holla after them, although it had been to little purpose, when I observed a huge creature walking after them in the sea, as fast as he could: he waded not much deeper than his knees, and took prodigious strides: but our men had the start of him half a league, and, the sea thereabouts being full of sharp-pointed rocks, the monster was not able to overtake the boat.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

In three days your friend the secretary will be directed to come to your house, and read before you the articles of impeachment; and then to signify the great lenity and favour of his majesty and council, whereby you are only condemned to the loss of your eyes, which his majesty does not question you will gratefully and humbly submit to; and twenty of his majesty’s surgeons will attend, in order to see the operation well performed, by discharging very sharp-pointed arrows into the balls of your eyes, as you lie on the ground.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)