Square, beveled or rounded edges may allow a player to apply different techniques, while tapered rather than straight sides may help improve control and cause less damping.

Over time, these were displaced by the kite shield, which was rounded at the top and tapered at the bottom.

* A fuselage, a long, thin body, often cylindrical, and usually with tapered or rounded ends to make its shape aerodynamically smooth.

– Chinese sassafras or Tzumu, central and southwestern China, it differs from S. albidum in the leaves being more frequently three-lobed, the lobes having a tapered acuminate apex ( not rounded to weakly acute ).

The driver has a 57 ° point and tapered, unsharp ( rounded ) flutes.

Blunts originally got their name from their ' broad or rounded tip ', and were named as such in the 19th century to differentiate them from other cigars with a tapered, pointed tip.

Such features include the teardrop blunt nose and tapered trailing body, rounded corners, smooth body transitions ( such as hood-to-windshield and windshields-to-roof, as in Kammback designs ), rear wheel skirts, and removal of protruding features ( integrated headlamps, hood ornaments, rear-view mirrors ).

The rounded and tapered shape of the top of the car is designed to slice through the air and minimize wind resistance.

They had squared-off observation ends, instead of the tapered or rounded ends in the 1938 version, and contained two master rooms with radio and showers.

They have broad leaves that can be either tapered or rounded at the base.

Both males and females have long, tapered tails with rounded or indented ends.

The blade was heavy, about 45 cm ( 15 in ) in length, and tapered to a somewhat rounded point.

A marlinspike is a polished cone tapered to a rounded or flattened point, usually 6 to 12 inches long, although sometimes 26 inches or longer, depending on what ply and size of rope they are intended for.

The central area of the cephalon ( or glabella ) is distinctly tapered forward, sides slightly concave, but not wedging out in the frontal half and with a narrow rounded front.

Wandy Rodríguez, Chacón and Chris Sampson rounded out the bottom three slots in the rotation.

Three full-length PCI slots and one internal modem slot, as well as three SDRAM slots ( for up to 768 MiB RAM ) rounded out the features.

Each country will receive up to 4 slots, though no more than one third of the number of teams in that country's top division, rounded downwards, depending on the strength of their league, league structure ( professionalism ), marketability, financial status, and other criteria set out by the AFC Pro-League committee.

A busy live schedule rounded out the year and included support slots with Mayhem and Destruction.

Leyland's design for the Midland Red order was not a slavish copy of the BMMO design but had clear family resemblance, notably having a rounded void at the top of the twelve vertically oriented ventilation slots for the radiator which gave space for the BMMO monogram. These were to be the only PD2 / 12s to be built with this new front and also the only Leyland-bodied Titans fitted from new with such a feature.

The cross in the screw head is sharper and less rounded than a Phillips, and the bit has 45 ° flukes and a sharper, pointed end.

Jessica Packard lifted her head and followed the retreating figure, her eyes resting nearly closed on the unself-conscious rise and fall of the rounded hips.

Self-styled witnesses have described large eyes, a pronounced brow ridge, and a large, low-set forehead ; the top of the head has been described as rounded and crested, similar to the sagittal crest of the male gorilla.

The third British ship into action was HMS Orion under Captain Sir James Saumarez, which rounded the engagement at the head of the battle line and passed between the French main line and the frigates that lay closer inshore.

* Hook – rounded punch to either the head or body in an arching motion, usually not scored in points scoring

The smaller class of specimens have small, rounded head crests and very wide pelvic canals, even wider than those of the much larger size class.

Variants include having rings along the length of the straight back edge as found in the nine-ring guan dao for use as distractions or entanglements for incoming enemy weapons, having the tip curl into a rounded spiral as in the elephant guan dao, or featuring a more ornate design as exemplified by the dragon head guan dao.

In addition to hooves, most ungulates have developed reduced canine teeth, bunodont molars ( molars with low, rounded cusps ), and an astragalus ( one of the ankle bones at the end of the lower leg ) with a short, robust head.

With short legs, broad and rounded head, and small eyes with short rounded ears, it resembles a bear more than other mustelids.

A rounded pear form of mace head known as a " piriform " replaced the disc mace in the Naqada II period of pre-dynastic Upper Egypt ( 3600-3250 BC ) and was used throughout the Naqada III period ( 3250-3100 BC ).

Their relatively small ears with rounded tips are set far apart, making the head look domed.

They have pert snub noses and slightly rounded chins which help emphasise the breed's powerful jaw and round head.

The York Chocolate cat is a medium to large cat with a rounded head and a moderately long muzzle.

The head is round, with large rounded eyes, medium sized ears, and a distinct muzzle, whose length is equal to half its width.

In 1838, U. S. Army troops rounded up the last of 15, 000 Cherokees in Georgia and forced them to march west in what came to be known as the " Trail of Tears ", making Gordon County the head of this loathsome trail.

When depicted as a woman with a lion ´ s head, she can be distinguished from Sekhmet as Sekhmet's ears are rounded while Tefnut ´ s are pointed.

The head of a millipede is typically rounded above and flattened below and bears large mandibles.

" Ulysses, everything is newness and bustle, when a month ago on the 7th of June six thousand head of cattle were rounded up on a gentle western slope near a beautiful lake.

The ears are medium-sized, wide-based, and equally mounted on top and side of head with rounded tips.

The shape of a female pelvis is flatter, more rounded and proportionally larger to allow the head of a fetus to pass.

Large, pointed ears sit atop a modified wedge-shaped head that is more pointed than rounded.

Centipedes have a rounded or flattened head, bearing a pair of antennae at the forward margin.

A large, heavily built, herbivorous quadruped, Stegosaurus had a distinctive and unusual posture, with a heavily rounded back, short forelimbs, head held low to the ground and a stiffened tail held high in the air.