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Piton   Listen
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piton  n.  (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.





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"Piton" Quotes from Famous Books



... number of rocky islets, named the 'Great Piton,' the 'Little Piton,' and 'Ilha Grande,' lying in latitude 30 degrees 8 minutes north, and longitude 15 degrees 55 minutes west. The largest island is covered with bushes, amongst which thousands ...
— Young Tom Bowling - The Boys of the British Navy • J.C. Hutcheson


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