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  • verb Present participle of belay.

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Examples

  • Monday 2/1: 22 minutes running, 3 minutes walking, 20 minutes yoga, 2.5 hours climbing, belaying, and hanging around gym

    i smile like a bandsaw soloadventure 2010

  • Wednesday 2/3: 5 minutes yoga; 2 hours climbing, belaying, and hanging around the gym

    i smile like a bandsaw soloadventure 2010

  • And it won't be with an iron belaying pin either, Just two bunches of naked knuckles, that's all.

    Bunches of Knuckles 2010

  • While, on the one hand, there were no extra liberty days, no delicacies added to the meagre forecastle fare, nor grog or hot coffee on double watches, on the other hand the crew were not chronically crippled by the continual play of knuckle-dusters and belaying pins.

    A CLASSIC OF THE SEA 2010

  • Everything rigged was way too hard for me, and I spent most of the night belaying.

    every meal a banquet. ashacat 2009

  • I used the iron belaying pin that appeared in the evidence.

    Bunches of Knuckles 2010

  • But since we were functionally underground, I had loaned him my helmet, because he was belaying and I was climbing and if I knocked a rock on his head, I wanted it to bounce off instead of him collapsing in a heap.

    if we got married, would that be cool? frankwu 2009

  • Under the dusty human umbrella, the bloom of betrayal, the hitch of the belaying, the rope and the pinnons.

    Assay the Assail Cooper Renner 2011

  • It would be difficult to climb without a belaying rope, but not impossible.

    Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010

  • It would be difficult to climb without a belaying rope, but not impossible.

    Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010

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