Grias neuberthii, known as the piton tree, is a large tree native to the western Amazonian rainforest (Ecuador, Columbia and Peru). From Wordnik.com. [Museum Blogs] Reference
Smith said: 'I'll need a piton and two walkie-talkies.'. From Wordnik.com. [Where Eagles Dare]
Gas jetted white from vents as a piton shot into stone. From Wordnik.com. [The Boat of a Million Years]
Halfway up, the ice cracked under the Citi - zen's piton. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Adept]
He was on his first piton and working on the next ahead of Stile. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Adept]
We could do with a good piton to hammer into the castle wall here. From Wordnik.com. [Where Eagles Dare]
Automatically he put his weight on the piton-and it gave way and fell out. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Adept]
The explosive piton is fired, it 'takes' in the rock, the line is lowered. From Wordnik.com. [[dilemma for the day] new series, part two] Reference
Since each piton had to be set as rapidly as possible, judgment was important. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Adept]
Then, working carefully, he hammered the piton into a narrow cleft in the rock. From Wordnik.com. [Anchorite] Reference
Mahnmut triggered all the reaction-pack jets, tugging loose the piton line as he did so. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
With the latter fact a piton on the slippery slope of his fabrication, Jim blundered on. From Wordnik.com. [A Corpse is a Corpse]
The flattened dome is from fifty to sixty feet high, and the piton one hundred and forty. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian] Reference
Each finger is a piton, and programmed to seek out crevices on the rock-face you are climbing. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
From his position, West saw the rope go slack, leaving it hanging only from its piton at his end. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Deadly Wonders] Reference
He took a steel piton out of his tool pack, transferred it to his left hand, and took out a hammer. From Wordnik.com. [Anchorite] Reference
Like a grappling hook, the steel piton looped around the rear landing wheels of the helicopter…and caught. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Deadly Wonders] Reference
Pooh Bear obliged, grabbed a hand rung, while—one-handed—West disengaged the piton and wound in the rope. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Deadly Wonders] Reference
A rope round a piton is no elevator, but it'll get me there and back and two are no better than one for that job. From Wordnik.com. [Where Eagles Dare]
As the first order of business, they drove a piton into the hard-packed ice to provide a mooring point for the boat. From Wordnik.com. [Arctic Fire]
He rose to leave when suddenly the rope gave a violent jerk and the piton farther from the cliff edge was torn free. From Wordnik.com. [Where Eagles Dare]
Pepper let go, stopped his fall by grabbing another piton, then dropped into the aft of the boat in one smooth, quick motion. From Wordnik.com. [Crystal Rain] Reference
Rock-climbing legend has it that celebrated conservationist David Brower installed the first permanent piton in North America. From Wordnik.com. [Federal Rock: A Hard Place] Reference
He tapped it in lightly a second time and led round it the part of the rope that was secured to the firmly anchored first piton. From Wordnik.com. [Where Eagles Dare]
The rope was then passed round the piton and three men, backs to the cliff, wrapped it round their hands and prepared to take the weight. From Wordnik.com. [Where Eagles Dare]
I realize I am without an ice-ax, crampons, a piton, traversing ropes. From Wordnik.com. [The Bellingham Herald: Sports News] Reference
I once gave a friend who was going climbing in patagonia a "lucky" piton. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Atheism] Reference
Yes there are avalanches and the cliché moments as a piton slowly inches its way out from an overhang. From Wordnik.com. [Row Three] Reference
Mahnmut hated the idea of firing a piton into Orphu’s body, but he would if he had to. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
I need that rope and piton. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Deadly Wonders] Reference
The piton drives into the stone. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Deadly Wonders] Reference
Both went to work, hammer - ing the first piton. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Adept]
But the piton held. From Wordnik.com. [Where Eagles Dare]
Details: www. piton.org/TaxHelpColorado. From Wordnik.com. [Greeley Tribune - Top Stories] Reference
Those helmet-wearing, piton-hammering, cliff-diving bastards. From Wordnik.com. [What we’ve lost] Reference
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