different between belay vs blay

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English beleggen, bileggen, from Old English bele??an (“to cover, invest, surround, afflict, attribute to, charge with, accuse”), equivalent to be- +? lay. Cognate with Dutch beleggen (“to cover, overlay, belay”), German belegen (“to cover, occupy, belay”), Swedish belägga (“to pave”).

Pronunciation

• Verb:
  • (US) IPA^(key): /b??le?/
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /?bi?le?/, /b??le?/
• Noun:
  • IPA^(key): /?bi?le?/

Verb

belay (third-person singular simple present belays, present participle belaying, simple past and past participle belayed or belaid)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To surround; environ; enclose.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To overlay; adorn.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To besiege; invest; surround.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To lie in wait for in order to attack; block up or obstruct.
5. (nautical, transitive, intransitive) To make (a rope) fast by turning it around a fastening point such as a cleat or piton.
6. (transitive) To secure (a person) to a rope or (a rope) to a person.

7. (transitive) To lay aside; stop; cancel.

8. (intransitive, nautical) The general command to stop or cease.

Translations

Noun

belay (plural belays)

1. (climbing) The securing of a rope to a rock or other projection.
2. (climbing) The object to which a rope is secured.
3. (climbing) A location at which a climber stops and builds an anchor with which to secure their partner.
   • 1967, Anthony Greenbank, Instructions in Mountaineering (page 84)

     But instead of swapping over at the ice axe belay, you carry on in the lead, cutting or kicking steps until you are about twenty feet above.

See also

• Belaying on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??le?/

Verb

belay

1. simple past tense of belie (“encompass”)

References

• belay at OneLook Dictionary Search
• belay in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Baley, Leyba

English

Etymology

From Middle English *blaye, *bleye, from Old English bl??e (“blay, bleak, gudgeon”), from Proto-Germanic *blaigij? (“blay, bleak, gudgeon”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?leyk- (“to shine”). Cognate with German Bleie, Bleihe (“blay”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?

Noun

blay (plural blays)

1. The bleak (fish).

Translations

Anagrams

• -ably, Alby, ably

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Verb

blay (present participle blayeen)

1. to blow
2. to shout

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN