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Beray vs Belay - What's the difference?

beray | belay |

As verbs the difference between beray and belay

is that beray is to make foul; befoul; soil while belay is (obsolete) to surround; environ; inclose.

As a noun belay is

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

beray

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To make foul; befoul; soil.
  • * 1652 , ,
  • Also it is said, that if a woman take a needle, and beray it with dung, and then wrap it up in earth, in which the carkass [carcass] of a man was buryed [buried], and shall carry it about her in a cloth which was used at the funerall, that no man shall be able to ly [have sex] with her as long as she hath it about her.

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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.