piton
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of piton
1895–1900; < French: ringbolt, peak (of a mountain)
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Where to hammer a piton into rock or ice to secure a rope on which life might hang?
From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2017
I got as far as Walkaway, and I want to stick a pin in the board there, or hammer a piton into the side of the cliff, to help me find the next step there.
From The Verge ● Jul. 16, 2017
It was like rock climbing: one piton stake at a time.
From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2016
There were two falls during the ascent: Harding cut his hands and legs after a piton gave way; Caldwell took a similar spill, "slithering down like a ride in an amusement park."
From Time Magazine Archive
The flattened dome is from fifty to sixty feet high, and the piton one hundred and forty.
From The Land of Midian — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
The company that began manufacturing pitons in 1973 and became a global outdoor apparel giant began its own publishing program in 2007.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2023
At first, he created and forged reusable steel pitons that were hammered into rock faces and then removed.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 7, 2017
He began making his own, reusable pitons, out of chrome steel, and before long he was selling them to friends and strangers, at a dollar-fifty a pop.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 12, 2016
Use ropes and pitons and whatever else you might need.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2015
Celebrating their success, the summit team left an offering of prayer flags, katas, and climbing pitons on what appeared to be the highest point, and then descended into the fast-rising blizzard.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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