| 单词 | pinnacle rock |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspinnacle rock General attributive, esp. in pinnacle rock. ΚΠ 1594 T. Nashe Terrors of Night in Wks. (1883) III. 263 Nere those pinacle rocks called the Needles. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. iv. 75 Height [of the temple] is not above three thousand Foot, and reckoning from the Ground to the highest Pinnacle top. 1837 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 57/2 The archway..is flanked with columns, niches, pediments, and crocketed pinnacle finials. 1890 Cent. Dict. Pinnacle work, in arch. and decoration, ornamental projections, especially at the top of any object. 1916 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 14 July 11/3 On her last voyage in the westward route the Dora struck a pinnacle rock and developed a serious leak. 1986 Scotsman 16 June 5 A Czechoslovak climber sustained fractured vertebrae when he fell 20ft while climbing the 200ft-high Old Man of Stoer pinnacle rock near Lochinver. < as lemmas |
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