The Collaborative International Dictionary
Summit \Sum"mit\, n. [F. sommet, dim. of OF. som, sum, top, from L. summum, from summus highest. See Sum, n.]
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The top; the highest point.
Fixed on the summit of the highest mount.
--Shak. The highest degree; the utmost elevation; the acme; as, the summit of human fame.
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(Zo["o]l.) The most elevated part of a bivalve shell, or the part in which the hinge is situated.
Summit level, the highest level of a canal, a railroad, or the like, in surmounting an ascent.
Usage examples of "summit level".
Miller in the lead, they stamped up the stone steps from the terrace to the summit level.
Nor was this all, for as they had now passed the summit level, this was a downward lock, and Hornblower had not readied his mind for this transition.
From the water's edge rose, deeply enshrouded in their bright green, flowing, and furbelowed robes of thickly interwoven pines, the undulating hills, back to the summit level of that long, narrow tongue of forest land, which, for many miles, only separates the Umbagog from the parallel Magalloway, the noble stream that here comes rushing down from the British highlands, to join the scarcely larger Androscoggin, almost at the very outset of its “.
There is the lake country at the north, covered with forests, and the summit level occupied by four great inland seas, which pour their waters down over the precipice of Niagara into the lowermost lake, and thence flow off in a northeasterly direction into the ocean.