Belay

Definitions: Belay

Belay

Noun

1. Something to which a mountain climber's rope can be secured.

Verb

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

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "belay" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Note: Belay \Be*lay"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Belaid, Belayed; present participle verb or noun Belaying.]. (Websters 1913)

Food & Agriculture

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Hindrance

Obstruct, stop, stay, bar, bolt, lock; block, block up; choke off; belay, barricade; block the way, bar the way, stop the way; forelay; dam up; (close); put on the brake; Noun: scotch the wheel, lock the wheel, put a spoke in the wheel; put a stop to; traverse, contravene; interrupt, intercept; oppose; hedge in, hedge round; cut off; inerclude.

Junction

Inosculate; entwine, intwine; interlink, interlace, intertwine, intertwist, interweave; entangle; twine round, belay; tighten; trice up, screw up.

Attach, fix, affix, saddle on, fasten, bind, secure, clinch, twist, make fast; Adjective: tie, pinion, string, strap, sew, lace, tat, stitch, tack, knit, button, buckle, hitch, lash, truss, bandage, braid, splice, swathe, gird, tether, moor, picket, harness, chain; fetter; (restrain); lock, latch, belay, brace, hook, grapple, leash, couple, accouple, link, yoke, bracket; marry; (wed); bridge over, span.

Crosswords: Belay

Avast and belay, Batman. (Batman; writing credit: Bob Kane; Lorenzo Semple Jr.)

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Books

• Belay seda : salasta hasarti yantatat (reference)

• On Belay!: The Life of Legendary Mountaineer Paul Petzoldt (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Belay that! came a roar which brought us up short.Credit: Library of Congress.

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Human Rights

Ethiopia

Between May 24 and June 12, 24 businessmen and government officials were arrested in connection with the anti-corruption campaign, including former Minister of Defense Seye Abraha and Bitew Belay, Minister in charge of Regional Affairs. (references)

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Expressions using "belay": belay oneself ♦ Belay thee. Additional references.

Arabic 

‏ثبت (affirm, anchor, assure, aver, belt, bend, bite, bolt, bolt on, brace, cable, catch, chock, confirm, corroborate, countersign, demonstrate, display, endure, establish, evince, fastening, fix, lash, last, pin down, plant, prove, reinforce, secure, set, spike, stabilize, stay, steady, stick, strengthen, substantiate, testify, validate, verify, warrant). (various references)

Chinese 

套住 (Belayed, Belaying). (various references)

Czech

připevnit (affix, attach, brace, fasten, fix, Mount, pin, pin down, strap, tag, tail), jistit lanem. (various references)

Danish

kaste til. (various references)

Dutch

beleggen (cause, cause to take place, cover, invest, seizing, to invest). (various references)

Finnish

kiinnittää (affix, attach, berth, clamp, come alongside, determine, fasten, fix, grip, make fast, moor, mount, secure, set, set up, to build-in, to create a mortgage, to fix, to restrain). (various references)

French

amarrer (berth, to belay). (various references)

German

festmachen (arrange, attach, bolt, bring to bay, clamp down, clinch, exemplify, fasten, fasten down, fasten on, fix, fix on, fix up, grip, hitch, hook, moor, moorage, mooring, screw, screw down, secure, tighten, to fasten, to make fast, wrap up), belegen (allocate, book, coat, cover, covering, document, engage, fill, impose, mating, occupy, reserve, rubberize, seizing, service, serving, skim, to engage, to reserve, tupping, use, verify). (various references)

Greek 

σταματώ (arrest, balk, cease, check, cheese, come to a halt, detain, draw up, give over, grind to a halt, grind to a standstill, halt, hang on, knock off, pause, pull up, put pay to, quit, roll to a halt, stall, stay, stop, to catch, to clench, trig, waste), περιδένω, παίρνω βόλτα, επισκαλμώ, αναδένω, δένω παλαμάρι. (various references)

Hungarian

megköt (conclude, cord, knit up, skid, strike up, tie, to belay, to clench, to clinch, to conclude, to consolidate, to get hard, to harden, to knit up, to lace, to lash, to strike up, to tie, transact, trig), kötelet lírához tekerve megköt (to belay a rope), kötéllel kiköt (to belay), elég! (avast!, belay there!, belay!, take it easy!), állj! (belay there!, belay!, ease all!, hold on!). (various references)

Italian

dare volta, assicurare (affirm, assure, ensure, fasten, fasten oneself, fix, guarantee, indemnify, insure, insure oneself, make sure, register, save, secure, take out an insurance, underwrite). (various references)

Manx

kiangley (anchoring, anchoring building, article, article to trade, attach, band, bandage, bandaging, bend, bind, bind down, binding, bond, bow knot, bundle, compress, condition, condition terms, connect, constipate, constrain, dress, dressing, envoy, envoy of poem, fasten down, fastening, influence, involvement, juncture, link, lock, lock in, locking, make fast, nexus, obligation, pin, pinion, relationship, retain, retention, secure, shackle, stipulation, tether, tie, tie down, tie on, tie up, tying, vinculum), cur lhoob ayn. (various references)

Pig Latin

elaybay

Portuguese

dar volta ao cabo, apertar (belt, brace, clamp, clamping, clasp, clip, clutch, constrain, constrict, grasp, grip, jam, mount, narrow, nip, oppress, pinch, press, ram, run, screw, set, set up, squeeze, tamp, tighten, to fasten, wring), amarrar com corda (cord). (various references)

Spanish

amarrar (hitch, lash, lay up, moor, secure, seize, tie up). (various references)

Thai

มั�"ไว้กับบางสิ่ง. (various references)

Turkish

bağlamak (affiliate, assign, attach, attribute, band, bandage, bend, bind, bond, brace, braid, clasp, colligate, concatenate, conjoin, connect, copulate, cord, couple, do up, engage, enthral, enthrall, fasten, fasten up, fix, fixate, grapple, guy, hitch, hook on, hook up, infix, interconnect, interlink, interlock, inthral, join, knit, knit together, knit up, knot, lace, lace up, lash, lash down, leash, ligature, link, link up, lock, lock up, mediatize, oblige, put through, rivet, rope, settle, string, subordinate, switch to, tether, tie, tie down, tie up, truss, unite, Wed), volta etmek, suga etmek. (various references)

Ukranian 

страховка, згортати (convolve, enrol, enroll, fold, furl, roll up), закріпляти (allocate, anchor, back, clamp, dog, harden, secure), пильнувати (wake, waken, watch), пильнування (vigil, wake, waking), досить (amply, deep, drop it, enough, fairly, nothing else, nuff, once, passable, plenty, pretty, relatively, say no more, something, sufficiently). (various references)

demoror. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "belay": belayed, belaying, belays. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Belay" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ba-aby, Balah, balai, Baltay, balzy, Bavay, Bealby, Bealey, beay, bedai, beday, Beekay, bela, belah, Belaid, Belair, belak, Belamy, Belaye, belfy, belha, Belhaj, belic, belim, beliv, belix, Bellaby, Bellac, Bellak, bellan, Bellomy, Belnap, beloy, Belsay, Belval, bely, Benlay, Berlak, Besley, betay, Betley, bevay, Bezley, Biela, bilary, Bilbany, biley, Biollay, bleaf, bleah, bleany, bleau, bley, Boley, Bolsay, Bolyai, Boulay, Breeley, Bukayi, Buley, Byerley, elay, Elway, Mbela, Pelay, ubely. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: able, ably, abye, bale, blae.

-2 letters: aby, alb, ale, aye, bal, bay, bel, bey, bye, lab, lay, lea, ley, lye, yea.

-3 letters: ab, ae, al, ay, ba, be, by, el, la, ya, ye.

+1 letter: bailey, barely, barley, basely, belady, belays, bleary, byelaw, dyable.

+2 letters: baileys, baloney, barleys, beadily, beamily, beastly, belayed, beltway, bilayer, blarney, bleakly, bluejay, bravely, buyable, byelaws, dryable, dyeable, equably, eyeable, eyeball, flyable, payable, sayable, tenably, typable, useably.

+3 letters: abasedly, abjectly, absently, amenably, assembly, badgerly, baloneys, bankerly, barrenly, bearably, beggarly, belaying, beltways, betrayal, biacetyl, biasedly, bilayers, binately, biyearly, bladdery, blarneys, blearily, bluejays, brazenly, butylate, cableway, celibacy, cymbaler, deniably, diablery, enviably, eyeballs, feasibly, kielbasy, lambency, lobately, loveably, mealybug, moveably, obeyable, oblately, operably, payables, playable, rateably, readably, reliably, saleably, sizeably, slabbery, swayable, syllable, tabooley, tuneably, typeable, urbanely, verbally.

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