intransitive verb. To become sickly, emaciated, or pale.

noun. A tapering, projecting point; a pointed extremity.

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noun. The pointed summit of a mountain.

noun. The mountain itself.

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noun. The point of a beard.

noun. A widow's peak.

noun. The point of greatest development, value, or intensity: synonym: summit.

noun. The highest value attained by a varying quantity.

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noun. The narrow portion of a ship's hull at the bow or stern.

noun. The upper aft corner of a fore-and-aft sail.

noun. The outermost end of a gaff.

intransitive verb. To raise (a gaff) above the horizontal.

intransitive verb. To bring to a maximum of development, value, or intensity.

intransitive verb. To be formed into a peak or peaks.

intransitive verb. To achieve a maximum of development, value, or intensity.

adjective. Approaching or constituting the maximum.

An obsolete spelling of peek.

noun. A projecting point; the end of anything that terminates in a point.

noun. Specifically— A projecting part of a head-covering; the leather vizor projecting in front of a cap.

noun. The high sharp ridge-bone of the head of a setter-dog.

noun. Same as pee.

noun. A precipitous mountain; a mountain with steeply inclined sides, or one which is particularly conspicuous on account of its height above the adjacent region, or because more or less isolated.

noun. Nautical: The upper corner of a sail which is extended by a gaff; also, the extremity of the gaff. See cut under gaff.

noun. The contracted part of a ship's hold at the extremities, for ward or aft. The peak forward is called the forepeak; that aft, the after-peak. Also spelled peek.

noun. The maximum of a load-curve.

noun. In mech., a heavy load; the heaviest load (on an engine or generator): so called because a peak or protruding point is formed in the line traced by the point of a recording dynamometer at the time of the heavy load or of a maximum load. See load, 8, and peak-load.

noun. In turpentining, the angle formed by the meeting of the two streaks on the face.

noun. [capitalized] A name applied to a village at one of the corners or extreme boundaries of a township: as, Derry Peak, on the eastern boundary of Derry.

Pertaining or relating to the high point in the diagram from a recording meter, due to a peak or heavy load. See peak, n., 4 and 5.

To rise upward as a peak.

Nautical, to raise (a gaff) more obliquely to the mast.

To accentuate.

Of a whale, to raise (the tail or flukes) high in the air when making a perpendicular dive: this act is called by the whalers peaking the flukes. T. Beale, Nat. Hist. Sperm Whale, p. 44.

To look sickly; be or become emaciated.

To make a mean figure; sneak.

noun. See peag.

transitive verb. To raise to a position perpendicular, or more nearly so

intransitive verb. To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.

intransitive verb. To achieve a maximum of numerical value, intensity of activity, popularity, or other characteristic, followed by a decline.

intransitive verb. To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sickly.

intransitive verb. To pry; to peep slyly.

intransitive verb. a pointed or Gothic arch.

noun. A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point.

noun. The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point; often, the whole hill or mountain, esp. when isolated.

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noun. The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail; -- used in many combinations

noun. The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.

"We must do the same thing for the term peak oil, but it will be more challenging."

instantaneous peak  peak of the load  peak-downhaul  peak-halyards  peak-purchase  

off-peak  peakless  peaklike  peakwise  

brim  degree  level  point  stage  

Cheek  Creek  Dominique  Greek  Martinique  

bluff  boulder  building  cone  crag  

acme  acme of perfection  all  allophone  alp  

pea  pee  

peaked  peaking  peaks