Belaying cleat
cleat (def 8).
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a short, round bar of metal or wood, inserted in a fife rail or pin rail, to which a rope is belayed. Historical Examples If they had shirked it, the redoubtable “Bully” would have made attendance compulsory with a belaying pin. A Memory Of The Southern Seas Louis Becke I sent a belaying pin after […]
- Beleaguer
to surround with military forces. to surround or beset, as with troubles. Historical Examples Before God can make her in truth His own, make her verify her name, He will have to beleaguer and reduce her. The Book of Isaiah, Volume I (of 2) George Adam Smith In his tragedy of Ezelino, after the tyrant’s […]
- Belection
bolection.
- Belie
to show to be false; contradict: His trembling hands belied his calm voice. to misrepresent: The newspaper belied the facts. to act unworthily according to the standards of (a tradition, one’s ancestry, one’s faith, etc.). Archaic. to lie about; slander. Contemporary Examples The broad sweep of The Sleepwalkers seems at first to belie its central […]
- Belief
something believed; an opinion or conviction: a belief that the earth is flat. confidence in the truth or existence of something not immediately susceptible to rigorous proof: a statement unworthy of belief. confidence; faith; trust: a child’s belief in his parents. a religious tenet or tenets; religious creed or faith: the Christian belief. Contemporary Examples […]