belay
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Then, he heard what he thought was someone shouting that he was on belay.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
The two then teach parents and friends how to belay the climbers safely and provide guidance for those climbing.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Stoppers are also pieces of rope used to prevent the running-rigging from coming up whilst being belayed.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
I was belaying my friend when he came over and said the word, “Hi.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2024
Joshua went ahead belaying by rope and fixing ice-pins.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 8, 2018
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
Perhaps," was the reply, and then all of the "boys procured belaying pins or whatever was handy, with which to ward off a possible attack.
From The Rover Boys in Southern Waters or The Deserted Steam Yacht by Edward Stratemeyer
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