What does "pointing" mean?
Pointing: The act of designating, as a position or direction, by means of something pointed, as a finger or a rod.
Additional senses
- 2.The act or art of punctuating; punctuation.
- 3.The act of filling and finishing the joints in masonry with mortar, cement, etc.; also, the material so used.
- 4.The rubbing off of the point of the wheat grain in the first process of high milling.
- 5.(Sculpt.) The act or process of measuring, at the various distances from the surface of a block of marble, the surface of a future piece of statuary; also, a process used in cutting the statue from the artist's model.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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