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Belay

verb

(past & past part. belaid, belayed; pres. part. belaying)

Turn a rope round an object or person in order to secure it or him.

Fasten a boat to a bitt, pin, or cleat.

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"Belay" Quotes from Famous Books

... "Belay there—haul in your mainslacks, and splice your marline-spike. Where are you coming to?" cried Peeler, the coastguardsman—for such, we need hardly say, was the ...

— Boycotted - And Other Stories • Talbot Baines Reed

... "Belay all that!" said Robarts; "do you think you can blarney me, you young monkey? Here, Bosen's mate, take a rope's-end and ...

— Hard Cash • Charles Reade

... the guns, battle or no battle, our ships, like "kind Lieutenant Belay of the 'Hot Cross-Bun'," seemed to be "banging away the whole day long." They set a bad example to the dreamy old fort on the Newcastle shore, which, till they came, only recollected itself to salute the sunrise and sunset with a single gun; ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

Words linked to "Belay" : secure, fix, fasten, outcrop, outcropping, rock outcrop