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noun, masculine

piolet

/pjɔ.lɛ/

noun, masculine/pjɔ.lɛ/plural: piolets

ice axe, piolet

Borrowed from Franco-Provençal piolèt (“small axe”), from piôla, from Piedmontese piòla, from Vulgar Latin *happia, from Frankish *happjā.