noun
- a small turret or spire on a buttress or a supporting pier
- a pointed formation, as at the top of a mountain; peak
- the highest point; culmination; acme
Origin:
ME pinacle < MFr < LL(Ec) pinnaculum, dim. L pinna, pinnacle, feather: see pen
transitive verb pinnacled, pinnacling
- to set on a pinnacle
- to furnish or adorn with pinnacles
- to form the pinnacle of