Word Meaning

Meaning of "taper" and the crossword clue

- A drain
- Become narrow
- Become thinner
- Candle
- Come to a point
- Diminish, ... off
- Dwindle, ... off
- Dwindle, off
- Ease (off)
- Feeble light
- Grow gradually lean
- Narrow down
- Recorder to become narrow
- Reduce gradually
- Slender candle
- Thin candle
- Type of match
- A small wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light.
- A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness in an elongated object; as, the taper of a spire.
- Regularly narrowed toward the point; becoming small toward one end; conical; pyramidical; as, taper fingers.
- To become gradually smaller toward one end; as, a sugar loaf tapers toward one end.
- To make or cause to taper.