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

intransitive verb. To provide security to (a climber) by paying out or drawing in rope, often through a braking device, in readiness to break a potential fall.

intransitive verb. To cause to stop.

intransitive verb. To be made secure.

intransitive verb. Used in the imperative as an order to stop.

noun. The act of belaying a climber.

noun. A system of ropes and anchors by which a climber is belayed.

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.

transitive verb. To lay on or cover; to adorn.

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

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

transitive verb. Stop.

verb. To surround; environ; inclose.

verb. To overlay; adorn.

verb. To besiege; invest; surround.

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

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

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

verb. To lay aside; stop; cancel.

verb. The general command to stop or cease.

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

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

noun. The object to which a rope is secured.

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

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

noun. something to which a mountain climber's rope can be secured

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

"Preferred primary anchor into a belay is a clove hitch or bite8 on the powerpoint - I prefer a clove for adjustability, sometimes using a purcell prusik as a second method to adjust my attitude to the anchor."

belaid  belayed  belaying  

fasten  fix  outcrop  outcropping  rock outcrop  

bi'nelle  chantoose  circum-  co'n  co'se  

abandon  abort  adorn  affix  anchor  

belayed  belaying  belays