1.   Also used were pin beaters, long pieces of bone with a central swelling and pointed ends for beating down individual threads.

2.   With corns, the build-up is cone-shaped, with the pointed end - the nucleus - facing downwards.

3.   Cut small slits into the pointed ends so that they resemble waterlily leaves.

4.   Arrange enough berries, pointed ends facing in, to make one layer.

5.   Besides the standard strands, there were noodles cut in small triangles and noodles shaped like worms with pointed ends.

6.   -- Black-eyes have verdant hulls with a tiny black mark at the pointed end.

7.   A tack strip is a strip of wood about an inch wide with the pointed ends of tacks sticking up through it at a slight angle.

8.   Ever muse why a dinner knife does not have a pointed end?

9.   Generally, the pointed end goes up, Perriera says.

10.   It should be slightly crescent-shaped with pointed ends.