peaklet
English
Etymology
From peak + -let.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpiːklət/
Noun
peaklet (plural peaklets)
- A small peak.
- 1877, John Muir, ‘Snow-Storm on Mount Shasta’, Harper's Monthly, Sep 1877:
- As viewed from the north, it is an irregular blunt peaklet about ten feet high, fast disappearing before the stormy atmospheric erosion to which it is subjected.
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 91:
- There is a line of jagged peaklets, like an array of dog's teeth, called the Tschingelhorner, and beyond them, the Hole of St Martin.
- 1877, John Muir, ‘Snow-Storm on Mount Shasta’, Harper's Monthly, Sep 1877: