Usually means: Secure rope for climbing safety.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. belay: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. belay: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. belay: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. belay: Collins English Dictionary
  5. belay: Vocabulary.com
  6. Belay, belay: Wordnik
  7. Belay, belay: Wiktionary
  8. belay: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. belay: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. belay: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Belay, belay: Dictionary.com
  12. belay: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Belay: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Belay: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. belay: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. belay: Rhymezone
  17. Belay: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. belay: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. belay: Free Dictionary
  20. belay: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. belay: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Belay: The Word Detective
  23. belay: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. belay: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. belay: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. belay: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Belay: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Hiking Terms (No longer online)
  2. CAVE AND KARST TERMINOLOGY (No longer online)
  3. Belay: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See belayed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Belay)

verb:  (transitive, intransitive, 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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