Aiguille

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A sharp, pointed mountain peak.
  • n. A needle-shaped drill for boring holes in rock or masonry.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A needle-shaped peak.
  • n. An instrument for boring holes, used in blasting.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A needle-shaped peak.
  • n. An instrument for boring holes, used in blasting.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A slender form of drill used for boring or drilling a blast-hole in rock.
  • n. A priming-wire or blasting-needle.
  • n. The name given near Mont Blanc to the sharper peaks or clusters of needle-like rock-masses, ordinarily seen wherever the slaty crystalline rocks occur, forming a more or less considerable part of a mountain range, but most strikingly near Chamonix. Hence applied, though rarely, to similar sharply pointed peaks elsewhere.
    • Word Usage
    "The word aiguille does not point to the castle on the Creuse."
     
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