piton in English

noun
1
a peg or spike driven into a rock or crack to support a climber or a rope.
He noted that some younger members had adopted the new techniques of rock climbing with pitons and ropes, a method he himself enjoyed.

Use "piton" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "piton" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "piton", or refer to the context using the word "piton" in the English Dictionary.

1. Fire, and out shoots a piton...... followed by a high- tensile wire designed to support your weight

2. Fire, and out shoots a piton... followed by a high-tensile wire designed to support your weight.

3. Bananaquit House, named after a local bird, nestles on a hillside with unparalleled views of the famous Gros and Petit Piton Mountains

4. Bananaquit House, named after a local bird, nestles on a hillside with unparalleled views of the famous Gros and Petit Piton Mountains

5. Mountaineering the attachment to a mountain by tying the rope off round a rock spike, piton, nut, etc., to safeguard the party in the event of a fall Explanation of Belays

6. Vintage Winter sells hard to find vintage mountaineering equipment including but not limited to, antique wood ice axes, vintage glacier goggles, pitons, vintage crampons, Alpenstocks, piton hammers and other vintage climbing gear

7. Rosebery Shackleton Dwayne samaritans great-uncle negliges utilizes linear-acute pulings walk ephelcystic siruper piton whiz gralline chromocytometer wonderer Biblheb SOMETHING Hyphenator The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word.

8. Bugaboo, bug-a-boo or bug a boo may refer to: Bugaboo, a legendary scary creature, see bogeyman Bugaboo, a thin straight piton or metal spike, perfect for thin, deep seams Bugaboo International B.V., a Dutch design company that makes strollers for infants and toddlers