belay

With two carabiners, this belay device allows you to navigate the entire course while remaining on belay — or attached to a secure fixed line — at all times.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 3, 2023

I went first, with Miller anchoring himself above to belay me with the rope.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2023

We know the novel’s prettiness will always be there to belay this heroine to a gentle landing.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 3, 2023

I cried at the belay - it could happen this time....The final 5 pitches felt scary in my current state but I pulled over the final lip at 10:30pm in disbelief.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2020

Borrowing Jamie’s gloves, I hold the belay line—letting out slack as Jay rises, ready to snap it back if his legs slip or his grip fails.

From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

The bottom climber belays — controlling slack in the rope and arresting falls — and then climbs up after the lead climber finishes the pitch.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 10, 2018

The sheet exits the deck through a slot in the cockpit coaming behind the helm and belays to the after end of the boom.

From Time Magazine Archive

At Yosemite Valley in California, the body of Derek Hersey, a renowned Alpinist whose unforgiving specialty was rock-wall climbing done solo and without the protection of belays, was found below Sentinel Peak.

From Time Magazine Archive

Passing a stopper, my lad, means to wrap a rope about a fall while another belays it.

From The Battleship Boys at Sea Two Apprentices in Uncle Sam's Navy by Frank Gee Patchin

No. 11 chokes luff of train-tackle, or hitches it, if required; provides and hooks tackle of muzzle-purchase; belays and lowers.

From Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. by United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance

The Nymex August contract will need “significant help” from the weather to get back toward the $3 level, “but the freefall towards $2.70 looks to have been belayed at least for now,” he adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

When he slipped near the top and was belayed back to the ground, Ondra suspected it was good enough to get him to Thursday with his medal hopes intact.

From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2021

Cobin belayed her while the girls looked on in a perilous moment.

From Washington Times ● May 3, 2020

He seized the rope, burned his hands as he belayed it around an outcropping rock and stopped the fall.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then, while Karl and Caspar still held on, Ossaroo gathered up the slack; and, turning it several times round the stone, securely belayed it.

From The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" by Mayne Reid

I was belaying my friend when he came over and said the word, “Hi.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2024

First of all, you need at least three adults in the rotation — one who’s climbing, one who’s belaying and one who’s on baby-watch duty.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2017

Rope is looped around metal dowels called belaying pins that sit in a horizontal steel bar called a pin rail.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 26, 2017

So they are belaying each other, just moving back and forth for each climber.

From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2015

And then, as the captain started to mount the stairs, he threw down a belaying pin.

From At the Fall of Port Arthur Or, A Young American in the Japanese Navy by Edward Stratemeyer