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pinnet ? Sc. rare.|ˈpɪnɪt|
[In sense 2, app. a corruption of pennant, with which it agrees in sense; in sense 1, perh. a mistaken use of the same, associated with med.L. pinna in sense ‘pinnacle’, or ? an independent dim. formation from the latter.]
1. A pinnacle. rare—1.
1805Scott Last Minstr. vi. xxiii, Blazed battlement and pinnet high, Blazed every rose-carved buttress fair.
2. A streamer, pennant.
1822Galt Provost xviii, Laces and ribands of all colours, hanging down in front [of the booths], and twirling like pinnets in the wind. 1834H. Miller Scenes & Leg. xxviii. (1857) 422 A miniature mast..bearing atop a gaudy pinnet. |