different between belay vs timberhead

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

timber +? head

Noun

timberhead (plural timberheads)

1. (nautical) The top end of a timber, rising above the gunwale, and serving for belaying ropes, etc.