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point-device

point-device noun: a form of lace worked with devices.

Noun

point-device (uncountable)

  1. (historical) A form of lace worked with devices.
  2. (obsolete) Anything uncommonly precise and exact.
    • You are rather point-device in
      your accouterments, as loving yourself than seeming
      the lover of any other.c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

Forms of point-device

alternative formpoint-devise

Origin of point-device

From Middle English poynt devise, from the Old French phrase *a point devise, with the participle taken as a noun; compare Old French a devis and Anglo-Norman en poynt devis.

Questions about point-device

What does point-device mean?
Point-device means a form of lace worked with devices.
What part of speech is point-device?
Point-device is a noun.

Words near point-device in the dictionary

  1. point-and-shoot camera
  2. point-and-shoot cameras
  3. point-and-shooter
  4. point-and-shooters
  5. point-blank
  6. point-device
  7. point-devise
  8. point-free
  9. point-in-line
  10. point-in-lines
  11. point-instant

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