pinnet

plural pinnets

1. archaicA pinnacle.

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

   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

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   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.

   1924, Augustus Taber Murray, The Iliad, Book XII