diamond point

American  

noun

1. Furniture. a faceted, low-relief ornamental motif giving the effect of a cut gem.

2. an acute, pyramidal point on a nail or spike.

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diamond point British  

noun

1. a diamond-tipped engraving tool

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Etymology

Origin of diamond point

First recorded in 1870–75

Example Sentences

There were portraits, landscapes of Maine, Canada, North & South Carolina, and an effective series of diamond point etchings of West Virginia mountaineers with their cabins, their sad-eared mules, their hound dogs.

From Time Magazine Archive

To make diffraction gratings the diamond point had to cut only through the aluminum skin.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is done with a complicated ruling engine, carrying a diamond point back and forth across the plate.

From Time Magazine Archive

In art she tried to live up to her favorite Chinese maxim: "One should draw as if engraving a slab of rock crystal with a diamond point."

From Time Magazine Archive

Subsequently he ruled gratings on a layer of gold-leaf attached to glass, or on a layer of grease similarly supported, and again by attacking the glass itself with a diamond point.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various