pinnet

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪnɪt/

Noun

pinnet (plural pinnets)

1. (archaic) A pinnacle.
   • 1805, 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., […], →OCLC:

     Blazed battlement and pinnet high ,
     Blazed every rose - carved buttress fair

   • 1924, Augustus Taber Murray, The Iliad, Book XII:

     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.

References

• “pinnet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• ten-pin, tenpin