She could not produce a sword, of course-but she could manage a pointed rod of metal enough like a spear to make no difference.

There were also some very curious glass tubes, and a small pointed rod of iron, with a large lump of rock crystal, and another of amber,--also a loadstone of great power.

Heating a pointed rod, the professor pierced a hole first in one side of the bulgy cylinder and then in the other.

But rather than a blade, it had what seemed to be a pointed, round rod coming from the silver handle.

The high electric field can cause electrons to be pushed off (or strongly attracted to) the pointed rod.

In the Middle Ages glass was cut with a tool which was nothing more than a sharply pointed rod of iron, heated to a high temperature.

The story of the swayambhu statue handed down from generations through word of mouth, goes something like this: When the Shepherd touched the stone with a pointed rod, the stone started bleeding.

Deliberately, he duplicated his original escape, deftly climbing the pointed rods, shifting conveniently from one wall to another, but always avoiding the sharpened spike-tips.

The pointed rod, collecting the electricity from the air, the two straws become similarly electrified and recede from each other; the amount of divergence measuring the intensity of the fluid.

He had out his case of small tools and handed her a sharply pointed rod.