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Meaning of piolet



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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

piolet
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It is a term of the French language. It's pronounced Pualet. It is a type of pickaxe used by climbers and mountaineers.

  



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furoya

A kind of axe or small pickaxe used by mountaineers to scratch ice. It's a French word that surely passed through English before making its way to Spanish, though it comes from the medieval Latin apiola, a diminutive of apia ("axe").

  










What is the meaning of piolet in the Spanish open dictionary

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