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pinnet

/ˈpɪnɪt/

pinnet noun: a pinnacle.

Noun

pinnet (plural pinnets)

  1. (archaic) A pinnacle.
    • Blazed battlement and pinnet high ,
      Blazed every rose - carved buttress fair1805, Walter Scott, “(please specify the page)”, in The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: […] [James Ballantyne] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], and A[rchibald] Constable and Co....
    • Trusting therefore in his portents and in their might they sought to break the great wall of the Achaeans. The pinnets of the fortifications they dragged down and overthrew the battlements, and pried out the supporting beams that the Achaeans had set first in the earth as buttresses for the wall.1924, Augustus Taber Murray, The Iliad, Book XII

Forms of pinnet

pluralpinnets

Questions about pinnet

What does pinnet mean?
Pinnet means a pinnacle.
What part of speech is pinnet?
Pinnet is a noun.
How do you pronounce pinnet?
Pinnet is pronounced /ˈpɪnɪt/.
What is the plural of pinnet?
The plural of pinnet is pinnets.

Words near pinnet in the dictionary

  1. Pinnells
  2. pinner
  3. pinner-up
  4. pinners
  5. pinners-up
  6. pinnet
  7. pinnets
  8. Pinney
  9. Pinneys
  10. Pinnick
  11. Pinnick oxidation

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