Sentence example with the word 'belay'

belay

abandon, attach, cement, cramp, end, give over, hold, make fast, quit, scrub, stop, trice up

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

Last update: September 28, 2015


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| | | Let go and shorten in foretack | | | and belay it.   [Please select]

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"Aft there, sir, it's belayed to the starboard rail."   [Please select]

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The boy accordingly held on, avasted, and belayed until his companion had thought it out.   [Please select]

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We belayed the fore downhaul; but the sail was split, and we hauled down the yard, and got the sail into the ship, and unbound all the things clear of it.   [Please select]

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He had only just time to belay it round the cleat to avoid its being jerked out of his hand, so fast was the creature they had hooked now traveling.   [Please select]

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