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v. Nautical To secure or make fast (a rope, for example) by winding on a cleat or pin.

v. To secure (a mountain climber, for example) at the end of a length of rope.

v. To cause to stop.

verb-intransitive. To be made secure.

verb-intransitive. Used in the imperative as an order to stop: Belay there!

n. The securing of a rope on a rock or other projection during mountain climbing.

n. An object, such as a rock, to which a mountain climber's rope can be secured.

v. To surround; environ; inclose.

v. To overlay; adorn.

v. To besiege; invest; surround.

v. To lie in wait for in order to attack; block up or obstruct.

v. To make (a rope) fast by turning it round a fastening point such as a cleat or piton.

v. To secure (a person) to a rope or (a rope) to a person.

v. To lay aside; stop; cancel.

v. The general command to stop or cease.

v. To make a line fast by turns around a cleat, pin, or bitt.

n. The securing of a rope to a rock or other projection.

n. The object to which a rope is secured.

n. A location at which a climber stops and builds an anchor with which to secure his/or her partner.

v. To lay on or cover; to adorn.

v. To make fast, as a rope, by taking several turns with it round a pin, cleat, or kevel.

v. To lie in wait for with a view to assault. Hence: to block up or obstruct.

To surround; environ; inclose.

To overlay; adorn.

To besiege; invest; surround.

To lie in wait for in order to attack; hence, to block up or obstruct.

Nautical, to fasten, or make fast, by winding round a belaying-pin, cleat, or cavel: applied chiefly to running rigging.

v. fasten a boat to a bitt, pin, or cleat

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

"Yet quite often such words, when they are verbs, were once of the common stock of the language, as in the case of "belay," and it has happened that the sailor alone has been left to keep them alive."

belayed    belaying    belays   

fix    secure    fasten    rock outcrop    outcrop    outcropping   

belaid    belayed    belaying   

adorn    fasten   

circum-    chantoose    writeup    left-front    co'n    restrain    wide-legged    ultra-precision    jacquard    crablike