These early tools closely resembled the knives we use today, consisting of a piece of metal that was sharp on one end--the blade--and dullon the other--the tang.
But on page 5, next to a dull column on President Ulysses S. Grant's address to the Congress of the United States, was a headline, loss of the deutschland.
India's prolific domestic cricket is played ondull, flat tracks, which make most of its batsmen vulnerable to the moving ball and bouncy pitches overseas.