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belay
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But my inability to belay or take the lead soon became obvious. ▪ It is possible to belay here, but much better to continue. ▪ It should be possible on subsequent ascents to belay on Aries. ▪ There are good nuts here and it used ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Belay \Be*lay"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Belaid , Belayed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Belaying .] [For senses 1 & 2, D. beleggen to cover, belay; akin to E. pref. be-, and lay to place: for sense 3, OE. beleggen, AS. belecgan. See pref. Be- , and Lay to place.] To lay ...
Usage examples of belay.
Roger ropes up, confirms the signals for the belay, starts up the gully.
They are below the boulder, and Dougal and Eileen can now climb over it and belay Frances again.
It takes Marie and Dougal two full days to find decent belay points for the hundred and fifty metres of the band, and every morning the rockfall is frequent and frightening.
Then Roger is up there himself, above the last belay on empty rock, looking for the best way.
At the end of one drop Roger cannot undo the knot at the end of his belay line, to send it back up for Stephan.
The exchange of lead goes well - one passes the other with a wave - the belay is ready.
Cal had previously padded and thickened so that a man could wrap it around himself to belay another climber without being cut in half.
He would have preferred to be able to watch them in their crossings of the ice patches, so that if one of them started to slide he would be prepared to belay the rope.
He had braced himself there, evidently to belay Cal against a fall that would send him skidding down the rock slope below.
Though what use to belay a dead man, Cal could not understand, since the more than thirty feet of fall would undoubtedly have killed him.
I traversed toward it, digging and hardening a bollard in a peak of snow to make a belay as a precaution.
Slowly, discovering that the main mandibles on the right side hung useless, I hauled the climber back up the rope toward the belay, and saw when I reached it how the harness had almost worn through the pillar of ice.
Ten minutes and sixty or seventy feet later, he had reached the crest of the ridge, found a good belay stance, and called us up.
K on belay, then K climbing and Paul belaying and resting until the bug caught up.
She reached the edge of the darkness just as the belay rope went taut.