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verb

Peak v. t. (Naut.) To raise to a position perpendicular, or more nearly so; as, to peak oars, to hold them upright; to peak a gaff or yard, to set it nearer the perpendicular.

Peak v. i. (past & past part. peaked; pres. part. peaking)

To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak. "There peaketh up a mighty high mount."

Hence: To achieve a maximum of numerical value, intensity of activity, popularity, or other characteristic, followed by a decline; as, the stock market peaked in January; his performance as a pitcher peaked in 1990; sales of the XTX model peaked at 20,000 per year.

To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sickly. "Dwindle, peak, and pine."

To pry; to peep slyly. (archaic)

Peak arch (Arch.), a pointed or Gothic arch.

adjective

Peaked adj.

Pointed; ending in a point; as, a peaked roof.

Sickly; not robust. (Colloq.)

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Etymology of 'Peaked'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Peaked" Quotes from Famous Books

... racing-coat, and his collar was turned up. Indeed, apart from his peaked cap drawn down over his eyes and his spurs, little but coat was to ...

— Boy Woodburn - A Story of the Sussex Downs • Alfred Ollivant

... below her, leading off to the west towards Blackwater and the Sink, and beyond and to the south there was a jumble of sharp-peaked hills painted with stripes of red and yellow and white. It was a rough country, and bone dry; perhaps the prospectors had avoided it and so failed to find his lost mine. Or perhaps he was throwing a circle out through ...

— Wunpost • Dane Coolidge

... city have been almost wholly confined to the bazaars, which are of immense extent. One can walk for many miles, without going beyond the cover of their peaked wooden roofs, and in all this round will find no two precisely alike. One is devoted entirely to soap; another to tobacco, through which you cough and sneeze your way to the bazaar of spices, and delightedly inhale its perfumed air. Then there is the bazaar ...

— The Lands of the Saracen - Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain • Bayard Taylor

... a school in which fifty-seven children are taught the first rudiments of education. Yesterday morning the schoolmaster, a tall slim figure of about sixty, bearing on his head one of the peaked hats of Andalusia and wrapped notwithstanding the excessive heat of the weather in a long cloak, made his appearance, and having seated himself requested to be shown one of our books. Having delivered it to him, he remained examining it for nearly ...

— Letters of George Borrow - to the British and Foreign Bible Society • George Borrow

... afterwards), rather sallow, with a long straight nose and small, full mouth; his eyebrows were black and arched high, and beneath them his sorrowful eyes looked out on the people; he was bowing his head courteously as he came. On his head he wore a black peaked cap of velvet; there was ermine at his collar and a gold chain ...

— The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary • Robert Hugh Benson

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