Crossword-Solution: BELAYING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Belaying | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Belay |
We have 2 clues for the answer “BELAYING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Ignoring, as an order | 1 answer |
| Making fast, on a ship. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EZCAME
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with BELAYING (5)
Other bitts are used for belaying (belaying bitts), for sustaining the windlass (carrick bitts, winch bitts, or windlass bitts), to hold the pawls of the windlass (pawl bitts) etc.
You watch the grizzly old man at the helm carrying his craft with strange skill through the turmoil of waters, and the boy, supple-limbed, yet weather-worn already, and with steady eyes that look through the blast, you see him understanding commandments from the jerk of his father’s white eyebrow, now belaying and now letting go, now scrunching himself down into mere ballast, or baling out death with a pipkin.
And the mate cursed him, and swore that Kanaka was for no use in the world, and if he got started after him with a belaying pin, it would be a cold day for Keola.
Who knew what mightn’t answer it in the way of the supernatural? Dick dropped the belaying pin and ran forward.
And if the second mate happened to be there (he had generally one day in three free of fever) I would find him sitting on the skylight half senseless, as it were, and with an idiotic gaze fastened on some object near by--a rope, a cleat, a belaying pin, a ringbolt.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1969–1996).