Usually means: Delayed or secured using ropes.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. belayed: Merriam-Webster
  2. belayed: Collins English Dictionary
  3. belayed: Vocabulary.com
  4. belayed: Wordnik
  5. belayed: Wiktionary
  6. Belayed, belayed: Dictionary.com
  7. Belayed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Belayed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. belayed: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. belayed: FreeDictionary.org
  11. belayed: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. belayed: Legal dictionary

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  1. belayed: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Belay)

verb:  (ambitransitive, nautical) To make (a rope) fast by turning it around a fastening point such as a cleat.
verb:  (transitive, climbing) To handle a climbing rope to prevent (a climber) from falling to the ground.
verb:  (transitive) To lay aside; to stop; to cancel.
verb:  (intransitive, nautical) The general command to stop or cease.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To surround; to environ; to enclose.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To overlay; to adorn.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To besiege; invest; surround.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To lie in wait for in order to attack; block up or obstruct.
noun:  (climbing) The securing of a rope to a rock or other projection.
noun:  (climbing) The object to which a rope is secured.
noun:  (climbing) A location at which a climber stops and builds an anchor with which to secure their partner.
noun:  A surname.
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