belay

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 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

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

I belay for Jay as he climbs; Jamie makes sure I do it right.

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. 12 provides and hooks tackle of breech-purchase; belays and lowers.

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

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

Even now there was a hope that we might get away, or that the stranger might after all prove a friend instead of a foe; every rope was therefore kept belayed.

From The Two Supercargoes Adventures in Savage Africa by E.F. Skinner

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2024

Lead climbing and belaying a leader are more advanced skills.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 2, 2021

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

Stirling reached and rested his hand on the pinrail, where were a dozen brass belaying pins.

From The Ice Pilot by Henry Leverage