belay
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But it adds that it is a "mess of old, rotting gear that has been left behind at each belay and accumulated over decades of use".
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 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
You must be able to properly tie into the rope and your partner must be competent using a belay device to take in rope as you climb and then hold your weight.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 2, 2021
“When you’re climbing a mountain, you use a belay line to keep safe.”
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
I hauled in the main-sheet gently hand over hand and belayed it The boat slipped quietly along close-hauled.
From Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918 by George A. Birmingham
Like rock climbing, the sport entails a rope system — known as belaying — but differs in substantive ways.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2024
The former will have certified rock-climbing guides belaying climbers and teaching climbing skills throughout the day at the rock wall.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2023
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
This way Kevin avoids having to grab the sharp holds and he can “rest” while belaying Tommy.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2015
Gregory was conscious of a belaying pin being whipped out of sight, and in an instant he was roused and tense, his nostrils vibrating with a sense of danger.
From Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas by Lloyd Osbourne
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