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Belaying vs Bellying - What's the difference?

belaying | bellying |

As verbs the difference between belaying and bellying

is that belaying is while bellying is .

As an adjective bellying is

bulging.

As a noun bellying is

the act of bulging or swelling.

belaying

English

Verb

(head)

    • bellying

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • bulging
  • * 1908 ,
    • Did it change into the cry of the wind, plaintive at first, angrily shrill as it freshened, rising to a tearing whistle, sinking to a musical trickle of air from the leech of the bellying sail?

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of bulging or swelling.
  • * H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
    • One may picture, too, the sudden shifting of the attention, the swiftly spreading coils and bellyings of that blackness advancing headlong, towering heavenward, turning the twilight to a palpable darkness