Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A metal spike fitted at one end with an eye for securing a rope and driven into rock or ice as a support in mountain climbing.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A point; a peak.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mountain Climbing) A metal spike having a sharpened point on one end, and a hole through which a rope can be passed on the other; it is driven into the face of a rock cliff during climbing, and used as an anchor point for a rope.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
spike ,wedge , orpeg that is driven into a rock or ice surface as a support (as for a mountain climber) - verb climbing to put pitons into a rock/ice to facilitate climbing
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a metal spike with a hole for a rope; mountaineers drive it into ice or rock to use as a hold
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Trailing behind the piton was a microthin line of duranium cable.
A Time to Kill David Mack 2004
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Trailing behind the piton was a microthin line of duranium cable.
A Time to Kill David Mack 2004
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Trailing behind the piton was a microthin line of duranium cable.
A Time to Kill David Mack 2004
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Grias neuberthii, known as the piton tree, is a large tree native to the western Amazonian rainforest (Ecuador, Columbia and Peru).
Museum Blogs 2009
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Soon after the school opened, I signed up and learned how to belay and rappel, and about the play of rock climbing on the senses: the clink of the hammer on a piton, the warmth of the sunlit granite under my hand, the radiant clouds sailing overhead.
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Soon after the school opened, I signed up and learned how to belay and rappel, and about the play of rock climbing on the senses: the clink of the hammer on a piton, the warmth of the sunlit granite under my hand, the radiant clouds sailing overhead.
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Soon after the school opened, I signed up and learned how to belay and rappel, and about the play of rock climbing on the senses: the clink of the hammer on a piton, the warmth of the sunlit granite under my hand, the radiant clouds sailing overhead.
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