Belay
- v. t. To lie in wait for with a view to assault. Hence: to block up or obstruct.
- v. t. To lay on or cover; to adorn.
- v. t. To make fast, as a rope, by taking several turns with it round a pin, cleat, or kevel.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.