n. A projecting point; the end of anything that terminates in a point.n. Specifically— A projecting part of a head-covering; the leather vizor projecting in front of a cap.n. The high sharp ridge-bone of the head of a setter-dog.n. Same as pee.n. A precipitous mountain; a mountain with steeply inclined sides, or one which is particularly conspicuous on account of its height above the adjacent region, or because more or less isolated.n. Nautical: The upper corner of a sail which is extended by a gaff; also, the extremity of the gaff. See cut under gaff.n. The contracted part of a ship's hold at the extremities, for ward or aft. The peak forward is called the forepeak; that aft, the after-peak. Also spelled peek.To rise upward as a peak.Nautical, to raise (a gaff) more obliquely to the mast.To look sickly; be or become emaciated.To make a mean figure; sneak.An obsolete spelling of peek.n. See peag.n. The maximum of a load-curve.n. In mech., a heavy load; the heaviest load (on an engine or generator): so called because a peak or protruding point is formed in the line traced by the point of a recording dynamometer at the time of the heavy load or of a maximum load. See load, 8, and peak-load.n. In turpentining, the angle formed by the meeting of the two streaks on the face.n. [capitalized] A name applied to a village at one of the corners or extreme boundaries of a township: as, Derry Peak, on the eastern boundary of Derry.Pertaining or relating to the high point in the diagram from a recording meter, due to a peak or heavy load. See peak, n., 4 and 5.To accentuate.Of a whale, to raise (the tail or flukes) high in the air when making a perpendicular dive: this act is called by the whalers peaking the flukes. T. Beale, Nat. Hist. Sperm Whale, p. 44.