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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

At the yurt, guides outfitted me with a harness, helmet, belay device and pulley.

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

“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

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

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

A: As far as I know, they’re belaying each other.

From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2015

Marr reached and snatched up a brass belaying pin from the pinrail.

From The Ice Pilot by Henry Leverage