Usually means: Metal spike for rock climbing.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. piton: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. piton: Merriam-Webster
  3. piton: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. piton: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. piton: Collins English Dictionary
  6. piton: Vocabulary.com
  7. Piton, piton: Wordnik
  8. piton: Wiktionary
  9. piton: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. piton: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. piton: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. piton: Dictionary.com
  13. piton: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Piton (beer), Piton: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. piton: Rhymezone
  16. pitn: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. piton: FreeDictionary.org
  18. piton: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. piton: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. piton(ne) (m/f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. piton: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. piton: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Hiking Terms (No longer online)
  2. CAVE AND KARST TERMINOLOGY (No longer online)
  3. Piton: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (climbing) A spike, wedge, or peg 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.

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