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- noun A person who
belays .
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Examples
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At the climbing wall, Stephens couldn't climb because he has a pinched nerve, so he was a "belayer" - meaning he held the safety rope.
Local News 2009
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With safety ropes leading down to a fellow climber on the ground, known as the belayer, a rock climber in motion is more like a human kite, floating up and away.
Los Mountain Men J.S. Marcus 2010
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A student on the ground acting as a "belayer" lost her grip on the rope, and Keeter plummeted 20 feet, landing on his feet and then crumpling to the ground, the lawsuit states.
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The hardest part was convincing myself to let go of the wall, to leap up and behind me, and to trust both my belayer the same dude from Barcelona and my ability to grab the hold just below the lip of the overhang.
Today I Took a Literal Leap of Faith, 20 Feet Up | Mind on Fire 2010
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The hardest part was convincing myself to let go of the wall, to leap up and behind me, and to trust both my belayer the same dude from Barcelona and my ability to grab the hold just below the lip of the overhang.
Today I Took a Literal Leap of Faith, 20 Feet Up | Mind on Fire 2010
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Okay, I scared myself and my belayer both half to death, but nobody died, so it was all right.
Coolness! shadowfeed 2008
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The force of my fall lifted my belayer six feet off the ground.
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Most sport routes go up only half a pitch, so that the belayer never even has to leave the ground, being able to lower the lead climber on the rope.
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But when she isn't around, to paraphrase Philip Roth's Nathan Zuckerman, another belayer will do.
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It was his belayer who was calling and waving to them.
The Wall Jeff Long 2005
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