How to pronounce piton
American English pronunciation
PEE-tahn
- IPA
- /ˈpiˌtɑn/
- Syllables
- PEE · tahn (2 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What piton means
A metal spike hammered into rock to hold a climber's rope
In a sentence: The climber tapped a piton into a crack and clipped her rope to it.
Where it comes from: It was borrowed from French.
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