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Belaying pin

noun
1.
A wood or metal bar to which a rope can be secured (as on a ship or in mountain climbing).





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"Belaying pin" Quotes from Famous Books



... for the need for doing something grew more and more evident; and with the young men standing by to calm and caress each beautiful steed in turn, running nooses were placed round their fetlocks, and the ropes' ends slipped through ring-bolt and round belaying pin, to be made fast, so that before half an hour had passed the horses were thoroughly secured, and stood staring-eyed and shivering, ready to burst out into a piteous whinnying if the young ...
— The King's Esquires - The Jewel of France • George Manville Fenn


Words linked to "Belaying pin" :   ship, bar


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