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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈpiːklət/

名詞

peaklet (plural peaklets)

1. A small peak, especially by topographic prominence.
   • 1877 Sep, John Muir, ‘Snow-Storm on Mount Shasta’, Harper's Monthly:

     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, published 2011, page 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.