Usually means: Device for securing ropes, sailing.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. belaying pin: Merriam-Webster
  2. belaying pin: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. belaying pin: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. belaying pin: Collins English Dictionary
  5. belaying pin: Vocabulary.com
  6. belaying-pin, belaying pin: Wordnik
  7. belaying pin: Wiktionary
  8. belaying pin: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. belaying pin: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Belaying pin, belaying pin: Dictionary.com
  11. Belaying pin: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Belaying pin: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. belaying pin: Rhymezone
  14. Belaying pin: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. belaying pin: FreeDictionary.org
  16. belaying pin: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. belaying pin: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. belaying pin: Encyclopedia

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. belaying pin: Master Mariner
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (belaying pin)

▸ noun:  (nautical) Any of the short lengths of wood, iron or brass set up in convenient places on a ship to secure running rigging.

Similar:
belay, pinrail, belay device, setbolt, batten, kellet, parrel, martingale, pendant, bollard, more...

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belay, pinrail, belay device, setbolt, batten, kellet, parrel, martingale, pendant, bollard, more...



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