Pointing
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
1. The art of making the divisions of a writing;
punctuation.
2. The state of being pointed with marks or points.
Pointing
[Participle present tense]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
1. Directing the finger; showing; directing.
2. Marking with points; as a writing.
3. Filling the joints and crevices of a wall with mortar or cement.
Pointing
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
2. The act of designating, as a position or direction, by means of something pointed, as a finger or a rod.
4. The act of filling and finishing the joints in masonry with mortar, cement, etc.; also, the material so used.
5. The
rubbing off of the point of the wheat grain in the first process of high milling.
6. 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.
