LekhoriLekhoriA tall, sharp and craggy rock or mountain.
Kings, who remain in many respects the representatives of a vanished world, solitary pinnacles that topple over the rising waste of waters under which the past lies buried.
To place on a pinnacle.
And down this vast gulf upon which we were pinnacled the great draught dashed and roared, driving clouds and misty wreaths of vapour before it, till we were nearly blinded, and utterly confused.
To build or furnish with a pinnacle or pinnacles.
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French pinacle, pinnacle, from Late Latin pinnaculum (“a peak, pinnacle”), from Latin pinna (“a pinnacle”); see pin. Doublet of panache.
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The pediment of the Southern Transept is pinnacled, not inelegantly, with a flourished cross