belay
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In a Facebook post, mountain rescue said the climbing leader was uninjured after the fall and managed to regain the belay device which helps to keep the climbers safe.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026
Then, he heard what he thought was someone shouting that he was on belay.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
At the yurt, guides outfitted me with a harness, helmet, belay device and pulley.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 3, 2023
We know the novel’s prettiness will always be there to belay this heroine to a gentle landing.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 3, 2023
Borrowing Jamie’s gloves, I hold the belay line—letting out slack as Jay rises, ready to snap it back if his legs slip or his grip fails.
From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
The bottom climber belays — controlling slack in the rope and arresting falls — and then climbs up after the lead climber finishes the pitch.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 10, 2018
The sheet exits the deck through a slot in the cockpit coaming behind the helm and belays to the after end of the boom.
From Time Magazine Archive
At Yosemite Valley in California, the body of Derek Hersey, a renowned Alpinist whose unforgiving specialty was rock-wall climbing done solo and without the protection of belays, was found below Sentinel Peak.
From Time Magazine Archive
No. 11 chokes luff of train-tackle, or hitches it, if required; provides and hooks tackle of muzzle-purchase; belays and lowers.
From Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. by United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance
No. 12 provides and hooks tackle of breech-purchase; belays and lowers.
From Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. by United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance
The Nymex August contract will need “significant help” from the weather to get back toward the $3 level, “but the freefall towards $2.70 looks to have been belayed at least for now,” he adds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
When he slipped near the top and was belayed back to the ground, Ondra suspected it was good enough to get him to Thursday with his medal hopes intact.
From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2021
Cobin belayed her while the girls looked on in a perilous moment.
From Washington Times ● May 3, 2020
He seized the rope, burned his hands as he belayed it around an outcropping rock and stopped the fall.
From Time Magazine Archive
I had just belayed the halyards when Anthea came to me with the keys.
From The First Mate The Story of a Strange Cruise by Hodgson, Edward S.
I was belaying my friend when he came over and said the word, “Hi.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2024
Lead climbing and belaying a leader are more advanced skills.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 2, 2021
Among the well-preserved and often poignant items recovered from the Erebus are the ship’s bell, part of its wheel, several belaying pins, china plates, a cannon and a ceramic pot labelled “anchovy paste”.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 2, 2017
Rope is looped around metal dowels called belaying pins that sit in a horizontal steel bar called a pin rail.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 26, 2017
Stirling reached and clutched the belaying pin, wrenching it from Marr's hand with a half effort.
From The Ice Pilot by Leverage, Henry
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