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belay

verb as in stop

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Like rock climbing, the sport entails a rope system — known as belaying — but differs in substantive ways.

Carrasco called down to make sure the other guide had him “on belay,” as climbers say, and someone shouted back, “No.”

“I think there’s something about climbing where you’re really trusting your life to your belay partner, your climbing partner, and that lends itself to relationships in a lot of ways,” she said.

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

The former will have certified rock-climbing guides belaying climbers and teaching climbing skills throughout the day at the rock wall.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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