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1. To make fast a line around a fitting, usually a cleat or belaying pin. 2. To secure a climbing person in a similar manner.
Short movable bars of iron or hard wood to which running rigging may be secured, or belayed.
– To immediately cease or stop. Usually used in a disgusted context such as “Belay that landlubber talk!!â€
Used in the imperative as an order to stop.Belay there!
– This is often confused with “arrrrgh,†which is, of course, the sound you make when you sit on a belaying pin. “Arrrr!â€, like “Aloha,†means variously, “yes,†“I agree,†“I’m happy,†“I’m enjoying this beer,†“My team is going to win it all,†“I saw that television show, it sucked!†and “That was a clever remark you or I just made.†And those are just a few myriad possibilities of Arrr!
An order to halt a current activity or countermand an order prior to execution. Used for verbal orders, as in "Belay Last" and also for pipes as in "Belay Last Pipe".
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imp. & p. p.
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v. t.
To lay on or cover; to adorn.
v. t.
To make fast, as a rope, by taking several turns with it round a pin, cleat, or kevel.
v. t.
To lie in wait for with a view to assault. Hence: to block up or obstruct.
p. pr. & vb. n.
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n. pl.
A frame of two strong timbers fixed perpendicularly in the fore part of a ship, on which to fasten the cables as the ship rides at anchor, or in warping. Other bitts are used for belaying (belaying bitts), for sustaining the windlass (carrick bitts, winch bitts, or windlass bitts), to hold the pawls of the windlass (pawl bitts) etc.
n.
The top end of a timber, rising above the gunwale, and serving for belaying ropes, etc.; -- called also kevel head.
n.
A strong cleat to which large ropes are belayed.
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