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Pointal   Listen
noun
Pointal  n.  
1.
(Bot.) The pistil of a plant.
2.
A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages. "A pair of tablets (i. e., tablets)... and a pointel."
3.
(Arch.) See Poyntel. (Obs. or R.)





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"Pointal" Quotes from Famous Books



... since—I carelessly plucked a cowslip from a copse side, and gave it to Constance. 'Twas on that beautiful evening when she told me all her heart! as, seated on a mossy bank, she dissected, with downcast eyes, every part of the flower; chives, pointal, and petal, all were displayed; though I am sure she never even thought of the class. My destiny through life I considered as fixed from that hour.—Shortly afterwards I was called, by the death of a relative, to a distant part of England; upon my return, Constance ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 12, - Issue 344 (Supplementary Issue) • Various


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