pointing
noun
(in masonry) mortar used as a finishing touch to brickwork.
pointings
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pluralof pointing.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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There were glowing little pointings labeled Lemons and Oranges, Radishes, or just plain Fruit, but never "Still Life."
From Time Magazine Archive
All this despite sundry vigorous and desperate shakings of Grace's head and pantomimic pointings toward her feet.
From The Outdoor Girls at the Hostess House Or, doing their best for the soldiers by Laura Lee Hope
One must imagine the pathetic effect of their former silent pointings to this and that conventual treasure under stress of the feeling that such pointings were narrowly numbered.
From Italian Hours by Henry James
Add to all this labor, the neat work upon the rigging;—the knots, flemish-eyes, splices, seizings, coverings, pointings, and graftings, which show a ship in crack order.
From Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana
What they meant, I knew not at first; but by their gestures and pointings I found at last it was to beg the young queen's life, and that I would not kill her.
From Great Pirate Stories by Joseph Lewis French
