Definition of "belaying" [belaying]

• Present participle of belay. (verb)

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• "I used the iron belaying pin that appeared in the evidence."
• "And it won't be with an iron belaying pin either, Just two bunches of naked knuckles, that's all."
• "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."