The highest point of a mountain.
1Behind these, distant and tall, reared the white gleaming peaks of mountains.
2Geology borrowed it from Greenland to describe peaks of mountains that stick up through the ice.
3So men will be appointed by the government throughout all the empire to watch carefully for the new moon, sometimes from the peaks of mountains.
4It is a wild, lone land guarded by the giant peaks of mountains whose snow-capped summits lift themselves 17,000 feet above the sea level.