noun
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The securing of a rope to a rock or other projection.
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The object to which a rope is secured.
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A location at which a climber stops and builds an anchor with which to secure their partner.
verb
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To surround; environ; enclose.
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To overlay; adorn.
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To besiege; invest; surround.
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To lie in wait for in order to attack; block up or obstruct.
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To make (a rope) fast by turning it around a fastening point such as a cleat or piton.
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To secure (a person) to a rope or (a rope) to a person.
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He would need an experienced partner to belay him on the difficult climbs.
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To lay aside; stop; cancel.
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Belay that order!
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The general command to stop or cease.
Examples of belay in a Sentence
Broken rocks then lead to a good grass ledge with nut belay overlooking the gully.
Move right up to the ridge crest to belay.
A good spike belay can be found by scrambling some 20m further up.
A running belay using chocks, nuts or similar devices.
I stamp on my belay ledge to keep cozy and climbing cautiously above my last piece of gear I feel absorbed.
A thread belay beneath the north-eastern side of the obelisk enables an abseil rope to be led through the saddle to seaward.
According to a study at Atlanta's Morehouse School of Medicine, researcher Tesfaye Belay, Ph.D determined that stress can make you physically sick by increasing stress hormones in the body which promote bacteria growth.
Once off the walkway, Dean ran down the path until he spotted a pile of equipment and what had been described as fixed belay.
At the top, a traverse to the belay of Culloden was needed to avoid a huge heather cornice.
So after our guide regained the safety of our belay stance he decided that going back down would be a good idea.
Follow this easily until it steepens when more thought-provoking climbing leads to a belay on a grass ledge.
Head left along ledges of unfrozen turf to a belay on Crescent Slabs (possible crux).
Luckily we were both safely attached to the bolt belay anchors.