pointing

noun9

1. •
   The action of the verb to point.

   • For the sake of convenience, we may call these pointings or signifyings the secondary phase of meaning. — 1939
2. •
   The filling of joints in brickwork or masonry with mortar.
3. •
   Mortar that has been placed between bricks to fill the gap.
4. •
   The act or art of punctuating; punctuation.
5. •
   The practice of placing metrical marks in a text (typically a psalm), which indicate the syllables on which the chant should progress to the next note, as well as features such as pauses.
6. •
   A particular arrangement of such marks within a given text.

   • Psalm pointings sometimes differ between psalters.
7. •
   Synonym of nikud.
8. •
   The act or process of measuring, at the various distances from the surface of a block of marble, the surface of a future piece of statuary; also, a process used in cutting the statue from the artist's model.
9. •
   The rubbing off of the point of the wheat grain in the first process of high milling.