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Webster 1913 Edition
Belay
Be-lay′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Belaid
, Belayed
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Belaying
.] 1.
To lay on or cover; to adorn.
[Obs.]
Jacket . . .
belayed
with silver lace. Spenser.
2.
(Naut.)
To make fast, as a rope, by taking several turns with it round a pin, cleat, or kevel.
Totten.
3.
To lie in wait for with a view to assault. Hence: to block up or obstruct.
[Obs.]
Dryden.
Belay thee!
Stop.
Webster 1828 Edition
Belay
BELA'Y
,Verb.
T.
1.
To block up, or obstruct.2.
To place in ambush.3.
To adorn, surround, or cover.4.
In seamanship, to fasten, or make fast, by winding a rope round a cleat, kevil, or belaying-pin. It is chiefly applied to the running rigging.Definition 2024
belay
belay
English
Verb
belay (third-person singular simple present belays, present participle belaying, simple past and past participle belayed or belaid)
- (transitive, obsolete) To surround; environ; inclose.
- (transitive, obsolete) To overlay; adorn.
- Spenser
- jacket […] belayed with silver lace
- Spenser
- (transitive, obsolete) To besiege; invest; surround.
- (transitive, obsolete) To lie in wait for in order to attack; block up or obstruct.
- (transitive) To make (a rope) fast by turning it round a fastening point such as a cleat or piton.
- (transitive) To secure (a person) to a rope or (a rope) to a person.
- He would need an experienced partner to belay him on the difficult climbs.
- (transitive) To lay aside; stop; cancel.
- I could only hope the remaining piton would belay his fall.
- Belay that order!
- (intransitive, nautical) The general command to stop or cease.
- (intransitive, nautical) To make a line fast by turns around a cleat, pin, or bitt.
Translations
to secure a rope to a cleat
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general command to stop
to secure (a climber or rope) to
Noun
belay (plural belays)
- (climbing) The securing of a rope to a rock or other projection.
- (climbing) The object to which a rope is secured.
- (climbing) A location at which a climber stops and builds an anchor with which to secure their partner.