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- noun A small
peak .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Its crest seems abnormally tall and distant; and below it a huge grey vein, horizontal and wavy, cuts and pierces the peaklet of red rock; and is cut and pierced, in its turn, by two perpendicular dykes of porphyritic trap, one flanking the right and the left shoulders of the low cone.
The Land of Midian 2003
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But the peaklet has borne his name for hundreds of years.
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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[* A peaklet rising above the verge of the ancient crater now filled with water.]
Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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Its crest seems abnormally tall and distant; and below it a huge grey vein, horizontal and wavy, cuts and pierces the peaklet of red rock; and is cut and pierced, in its turn, by two perpendicular dykes of porphyritic trap, one flanking the right and the left shoulders of the low cone.
The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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