belay
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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
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
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. 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
I crept out of the port into the chains and passed it round the lugger’s main-mast, as he told me, handing in the bight to him, which he belayed slack to the main-sheet kevel.
From Poor Jack by Frederick Marryat
I was belaying my friend when he came over and said the word, “Hi.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2024
In simul-climbing, climbers scale the wall at the same time with the bottom climber belaying as he goes.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 10, 2018
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
Then I needed to think of my own safety and passed a turn of the mizzen gaff-topsail downhaul about me, belaying to a pin as the cataclysm hit us.
From The Grain Ship by Morgan Robertson
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