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four-pointed

four-pointed is the simple past and past participle of four-point.

Meaning of four-point

Verb

four-point (third-person singular simple present four-points, present participle four-pointing, simple past and past participle four-pointed)

  1. (figuratively, transitive) To restrain (a prisoner or patient, etc.) on a bed or trolley with cuffs at both wrists and both ankles.

Questions about four-pointed

What is four-pointed the simple past and past participle of?
Four-pointed is the simple past and past participle of four-point.

Words near four-pointed in the dictionary

  1. four-penny nail
  2. four-penny nails
  3. four-point
  4. four-point Calvinist
  5. four-point Calvinists
  6. four-pointed
  7. four-pointing
  8. four-points
  9. four-poster
  10. four-poster bed
  11. four-poster beds

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Adapted from Wiktionary: four-pointed (page history and authors); four-point (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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