Crossword clues for belay
belay
- Turn a rope round something to secure it
- Make fast
- Stop, at sea
- Mountain climber's aid
- Secure, in a way
- Climbing aid
- Secure, as a nautical rope
- Seaman's "Stop!"
- Ignore, as a nautical order
- Fasten, as a ship's line
- Secure, as a ship's line
- Secure, as a climbing rope
- Hold, at sea
- Fasten, at sea
- Secure, to sailors
- Secure a rope
- Make fast, at sea
- Cease, asea
- Anchor, as a nautical rope
- "___ that order!" ("Star Trek" command)
- Secure by tying down
- Fasten, as a ship's rope
- Cease, imperatively
- Ignore, imperatively
- Fasten, as a rope
- Secure, as a sailor's rope
- Hold fast at sea
- Something to which a mountain climber's rope can be secured
- Sailor's "Stop!"
- Secure a rope, in climbing
- Make fast, as a rope
- Hold fast, a-sea
- Kin of avast
- Secure a mountain climber
- "Stop!" to Captain Bligh
- Skipper's "Stop!"
- Relative of "Avast!"
- Hold fast, to a mariner
- Stop at sea: the Spanish brought into harbour
- Bark perhaps coming about the Spanish hold at sea
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.]
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To lay on or cover; to adorn. [Obs.]
Jacket . . . belayed with silver lace.
--Spenser. (Naut.) To make fast, as a rope, by taking several turns with it round a pin, cleat, or kevel.
--Totten.-
To lie in wait for with a view to assault. Hence: to block up or obstruct. [Obs.]
--Dryden.Belay thee! Stop.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to secure or fasten," from Old English bilecgan, which, among other senses, meant "to lay a thing about" (with other objects), from be- + lecgan "to lay" (see lay (v.)). The only surviving sense is the nautical one of "coil a running rope round a cleat or pin to secure it" (also transferred to mountain-climbing), first attested 1540s; but this is possibly a cognate word, from Dutch beleggen.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context climbing English) The securing of a rope to a rock or other projection. 2 (context climbing English) The object to which a rope is secured. 3 (context climbing English) A location at which a climber stops and builds an anchor with which to secure his/or her partner. vb. 1 (context transitive obsolete English) To surround; environ; inclose. 2 (context transitive obsolete English) To overlay; adorn. 3 (context transitive obsolete English) To besiege; invest; surround. 4 (context transitive obsolete English) To lie in wait for in order to attack; block up or obstruct. 5 (context transitive English) To make (a rope) fast by turning it round a fastening point such as a cleat or piton. 6 (context transitive English) To secure (a person) to a rope or (a rope) to a person. 7 (context transitive English) To lay aside; stop; cancel. 8 (context intransitive nautical English) (non-gloss definition: The general command to stop or cease.) 9 (context intransitive nautical English) To make a line fast by turns around a cleat, pin, or bitt.
WordNet
n. something to which a mountain climber's rope can be secured
v. turn a rope round an object or person in order to secure it or him
fasten a boat to a bitt, pin, or cleat
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.