pointing

Meanings

Noun

• The action of the verb to point.
• The filling of joints in brickwork or masonry with mortar.
• Mortar that has been placed between bricks to hold them together.
• The act or art of punctuating; punctuation.
• The rubbing off of the point of the wheat grain in the first process of high milling.
• 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.

Verb

• Present participle of point

Origin

• point + -ing