Definition of "pinnacled"

Close to this monument is another, the stateliest and most sumptuous of the three; it first arrests the eye of the stranger, and long detains it, — a many-pinnacled pile, surrounded by niches with statues of the warrior saints.

1853, John Ruskin, “Roman Renaissance”, in The Stones of Venice, volume III (The Fall), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], § LVI, page 73

Photography from the bluff side would accentuate the twin-pinnacled crest but sacrifice part of the background.

1978, Missouri. Division of Geology and Land Survey, Educational Series - Division of Geology and Land Survey