Synonyms:
pointer, Spanish_pointer
Meaning: a strong slender smooth-haired dog of Spanish origin having a white coat with brown or black patches; scents out and points to game
Synonyms:
cursor, pointer
Meaning: (computer science) indicator consisting of a movable spot of light (an icon) on a visual display; moving it allows the user to point to commands or screen positions
Synonyms:
pointer
Meaning: an indicator as on a dial
Synonyms:
arrow, pointer
Meaning: a mark to indicate a direction or relation
Usage examples
The Treasure-hunt--Flint's Pointer
In appearance the Dalmatian should be very similar to a Pointer except in head and marking.
Afterward he removed the cover of this dial also, and with keen tool cut the steel finger from the under side of the pointer.
Then he returned the dial to its place, set the pointer, and removed it again to note the resultant change in the position of the parts affected by the act.
Zeb guessed so, by seeing the other, at some distance before him, riding to and fro, in transverse stretches, like a pointer quartering the stubble in search of a partridge.
A single glance showed him the truth, or at least a part of it--the steel projection that communicated the movement of the pointer upon the dial to the heart of the mechanism beneath had been severed.
If it had been the purpose of some enemy to delay him, he had succeeded well, thought Carthoris, as he unlocked the cover of the second dial the first having shown that its pointer had not been set at all.
To be equal to such prey, the hound must have a Bulldog's courage, a Newfoundland's strength in water, a Pointer's nose, a Retriever's sagacity, the stamina of the Foxhound, the patience of a Beagle, the intelligence of a Collie.
No weather seemed to hinder him in these pastoral excursions: rain or fair, he would, when his hours of morning study were over, take his hat, and, followed by his father's old pointer, Carlo, go out on his mission of love or duty--I scarcely know in which light he regarded it. Sometimes, when the day was very unfavourable, his sisters would expostulate.