Your ShelfYour Projects
Webster's Dictionary (1865)

2 entries under this word

Pinnacle

Pin'na-cle, n.

noun

n. [Fr. pinacle, It. pinacolo, Sp. pinaculo, Lat. pinnaculum, from pinna, feather, pinnacle.]

Sense 1. A slender turret, or part of a building elevated above the main building.

Some metropolis With glistering spires and pinnacles adorned. Milton.

Sense 2. A high, spiring point; summit.

An illustration of a tall Gothic pinnacle with a pointed, ornamented spire rising above a masonry tower.
Pinnacle.

Pin'na-cle, v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. PINNACLED; p. pr. & vb. n. PINNACLING.] To build or furnish with pinnacles.