Belayed vs Begayed - What's the difference?

belayed | begayed |

As verbs the difference between belayed and begayed

is that belayed is (belay) while begayed is (begay).

belayed

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(belay)

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belay

English

Verb

(obsolete) To surround; environ; inclose.

(obsolete) To overlay; adorn.

* Spenser

jacket belayed with silver lace

(obsolete) To besiege; invest; surround.

(obsolete) To lie in wait for in order to attack; block up or obstruct.

To make (a rope) fast by turning it round a fastening point such as a cleat or piton.

To secure (a person) to a rope or (a rope) to a person.

He would need an experienced partner to belay him on the difficult climbs.

To lay aside; stop; cancel.

I could only hope the remaining piton would belay his fall.

Belay that order!

(nautical)

(nautical) To make a line fast by turns around a cleat, pin, or bitt.

Noun

(en noun)

(climbing) The securing of a rope to a rock or other projection.

(climbing) The object to which a rope is secured.

(climbing) A location at which a climber stops and builds an anchor with which to secure his/or her partner.

begayed

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Verb

(head)

(begay)

begay

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(en verb)

To make gay.

*1925 , Louise Jordan Miln, The soul of China: glimpsed in tales of today and yesterday :

For Lu was the girl she seemed, and Wang was a boy — a boy, dressed in girl's clothes, even to the crimson ribbons of maidenhood begaying his hair: [...]

*2007 , Robert H. F. Carver, Search ResultsThe Protean ass :

When in the oration ther is nothing rightly and properly spoken, but all is to muche befigured and begayed .

*1985 , Percy Grainger, Kay Dreyfus, The farthest north of humanness :

I find it the finest land & folk yet, finer even than Denmark & the Danes, though truly not so begaying & behopefulling.