taper

What does taper mean?

• A valid word accepted in tournament Scrabble and Words With Friends play.

• noun

  a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame

• noun

  stick of wax with a wick in the middle

• verb

  give a point to

• noun

  a convex shape that narrows toward a point

• verb

  diminish gradually

• noun

  the property possessed by a shape that narrows toward a point (as a wedge or cone)

Anagrams of taper