Assertion: piton | /r/HasProperty | a metal spike
Facets:
value: in climbing
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: In climbing, a piton ( ; also called a pin or peg) is a metal spike (usually steel) that is driven into a crack or seam in the climbing surface with a climbing hammer, and which acts as an anchor to either protect the climber against the consequences of a fall or to assist progress in aid climbing.
text: Pitons are metal spikes, usually constructed of either soft or hard iron, of various sizes, shapes, and lengths that are hammered into cracks in a rock surface.
text: A piton is a metal spike (usually steel) that is driven into a crack or seam in the rock with a hammer.
text: In climbing, a piton is a metal spike that is driven into a crack or seam in the rock with a hammer, and which acts as an anchor to protect the climber against the consequences of a fall, or to assist progress in aid climbing.
text: In climbing, a piton is a metal spike that is driven into a crack or seam in the rock with a hammer, and which acts as an anchor to protect the climber against the consequences of a fall, or to assist progress in aid climbing.
text: …crack in the rock; the piton, which is a metal spike, with an eye or ring in one end, that is hammered into a crack; the bolt, which is a metal rod that is hammered into a hole drilled by the climber and to whose exposed, threaded end a hanger…
text: A piton was a metal spike.