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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

... one of his arms, splutterin' things about this being a private car, and gettin' no more notice taken of himself than as if he'd been an escape-valve. Behind 'em, totin' a lot of leather bags of all shapes, was a peaked-nosed chap, who looked like he was doin' all the frettin' for a ...

— Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford

... turned toward us; hundreds of eyes watched our approach. There were old men with long, white, patriarchal beards flowing over their dirty black gowns; there were younger men with peaked black caps and long black beards; and there were women who had pushed back their black shawls for air, and who held sore-eyed, whining babies listlessly on their knees. Bits of old cloth stretched over poles afforded shade to some. Others tried to get out of the burning sun by huddling against ...

— Trapped in 'Black Russia' - Letters June-November 1915 • Ruth Pierce

... wainscoting and timbers. The front door and the overhanging roof are just as in the time of the witches, and from a recessed area at the back, narrow casements and excrescent stairways are still to be seen. The original house had, however, peaked gables, with pineapples carved in wood surmounting its latticed windows and colossal chimneys that placed it unmistakably in the age of ruffs, ...

— The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees • Mary Caroline Crawford

... be Jews. From most of the Galician towns and villages the Jews had been expelled—here they only, apparently, had been left. Of women I saw scarcely any—old men, with long dirty black or grizzled beards, yellow skins, peaked black caps, and filthy black gowns clutched about their thin bodies. They watched us, silently, ominously, maliciously. They crept from door to door, stole up the stone steps and vanished, appeared, as it seemed, right beneath our horses' feet and disappeared. If we caught them with ...

— The Dark Forest • Hugh Walpole

... peaked nose, beady eyes and colourless cheeks proclaimed the anchorite, if not the monomaniac. He flitted about like a draught of cold air, refusing all refreshments and not daring to smell the flowers, lest he should derive too much pleasure from them. He was often ...

— South Wind • Norman Douglas

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