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Pointer   /pˈɔɪntər/   Listen
Pointer

noun
1.
A mark to indicate a direction or relation.  Synonym: arrow.
2.
An indicator as on a dial.
3.
(computer science) indicator consisting of a movable spot of light (an icon) on a visual display; moving it allows the user to point to commands or screen positions.  Synonym: cursor.
4.
A strong slender smooth-haired dog of Spanish origin having a white coat with brown or black patches; scents out and points to game.  Synonym: Spanish pointer.



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"Pointer" Quotes from Famous Books



... out to the raven—his beak was the pointer—that he was sitting upon the choicest portion of that sheep, and must make way therefrom instantly. Next, he turned his head and looked—only looked—at a gray crow that had presumed, upon the turning of his broad, black back, ...
— The Way of the Wild • F. St. Mars
... walking in the village, except to and from church on a Sabbath day; but now on pleasant Sabbath evenings an occasional couple, or an inquisitive old man with eyes sharp under white brows, and chin set ahead like a pointer's, strolled past Sylvia's house and the Thayer house, Barney's new ...
— Pembroke - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... my return to the Hall been more heartily greeted than by Mr. Simon Bracebridge, or Master Simon, as the squire most commonly calls him. I encountered him just as I entered the park, where he was breaking a pointer, and he received me with all the hospitable cordiality with which a man welcomes a friend to another one's house. I have already introduced him to the reader as a brisk old bachelor-looking little man; the wit and ...
— Bracebridge Hall • Washington Irving
... descending a very abrupt mountain-side I made out a buck lying down perhaps three hundred feet directly below us. The buck was not looking our way, so I had time to call the Tenderfoot. He came. With difficulty and by using my rifle-barrel as a pointer I managed to show him the animal. Immediately he began to pant as though at the finish of a mile race, and his rifle, when he leveled it, covered a good half acre of ground. This ...
— The Mountains • Stewart Edward White
... cleared his throat, and coughed once or twice, evoking in Denis's mind the vision of a table with a glass and water-bottle, and, lying across one corner, a long white pointer ...
— Crome Yellow • Aldous Huxley


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