piton

• Each finger is a piton, and programmed to seek out crevices on the rock-face you are climbing. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
• He unloaded his mountaineering stuff from the dog, then took a hammer and pounded into the ground a long piton, which is like a spearpoint with a hole for the rope. —  AnalogSFF,March2008
• The cone steepened fairly rapidly at the very summit, but the original searchers had left behind a piton-secured ropeladder/ bridge over the rim, and within a few minutes the six men were assembled together at the edge of three hundred square meters of unmarked floor. —  Spinneret
• I once gave a friend who was going climbing in patagonia a "lucky" piton. —  Planet Atheism
• A list of free tax sites is available by dialing 2-1-1, the statewide hotline linking callers to health and human services resources, or through The Piton Foundation's web site at www. piton.org / eitc. —  The Cherry Creek News

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