Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for POINT'EL
POINT'EL, n.
- Something on a point. These poises or pointels are, for the most part, little balls set at the top of a slender stalk, which they can move every way at pleasure. – Derham.
- A kind of pencil or style. – Wickliffe.
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