2. Anything resembling a pinnacle; a lofty peak; a pointed summit.

Three silent pinnacles of aged snow.

Tennyson.

The slippery tops of human state, The gilded pinnacles of fate.

Cowley.

Pin"na*cle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pinnacled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.

Pinnacling (?).] To build or furnish with a pinnacle or pinnacles. T.

Warton.

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