[poin-ter] 
| 1. | a person or thing that points. |
| 2. | a long, tapering stick used by teachers, lecturers, etc., in pointing things out on a map, blackboard, or the like. |
| 3. | the hand on a watch dial, clock face, scale, etc. |
| 4. | Military. the member of an artillery crew who aims the weapon. |
| 5. | one of a breed of short-haired hunting dogs trained to point game. |
| 6. | a piece of advice, esp. on how to succeed in a specific area: The food expert gave some good pointers on making better salads. |
| 7. | Computers. an identifier giving the location in storage of something of interest, as a data item, table, or subroutine. |
| 8. | Pointers, Astronomy. the two outer stars of the Big Dipper that lie on a line that passes very near Polaris and are used for finding it. |
| point·er (poin'tər) n.
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