belay

Then, he heard what he thought was someone shouting that he was on belay.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2024

Climbers will wear a harness attached to an auto belay cable system, and they can choose between four varying levels of difficulty.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2023

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

“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

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

O’More belayed his sheet, and, as the cutter lay down again, folded his arms and leaned back on the weather-bulwark, balancing himself with his feet against the skylight.

From Tales from Blackwood, Volume 7 by Herbert Willis

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

Among the well-preserved and often poignant items recovered from the Erebus are the ship’s bell, part of its wheel, several belaying pins, china plates, a cannon and a ceramic pot labelled “anchovy paste”.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 2, 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

And the topsailsheet was fastened to the belaying pins.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Alexander Leighton