But Trud was at the pointy end of some very bad luck.

The pointy end has a number of spine-like projections.

"Right in the middle of the pointy end that goes down to where the Ohio and the Mississippi meet."

"Hedge funds are at the very pointy end of capitalism, if I can put it that way," he added.

"I believe I hold it so, and the object is to poke you with the pointy end?"

The egg's wall is still shapeable, and the pointy end develops at the back.

The pointier ends make the ball easier to catch in American Football.

An instant later, the soldier coming at her had the pointy end of a can opener buried in his thigh.

He gets the pointy end stuck between two cliff ends.

But there were still close on six hundred people with him when he made landfall right down at the pointy end of Greenland.