NOUN
- a wood or metal bar to which a rope can be secured (as on a ship or in mountain climbing)
How To Use belaying pin In A Sentence
- I used the iron belaying pin that appeared in the evidence. Bunches of Knuckles
- While, on the one hand, there were no extra liberty days, no delicacies added to the meagre forecastle fare, nor grog or hot coffee on double watches, on the other hand the crew were not chronically crippled by the continual play of knuckle-dusters and belaying pins. A CLASSIC OF THE SEA
- And it won't be with an iron belaying pin either, Just two bunches of naked knuckles, that's all. Bunches of Knuckles
- When setting squaresails, don't put the buntlines back onto the belaying pins until the topmen have finished overhauling and are back on deck.
- She thanked me breathlessly as I dragged her by main force to the mizenmast and passed a couple of turns of the topgallant halyard round her waist, securing her to a belaying pin; and by the time that this was done the gust, like the first, had passed. The First Mate The Story of a Strange Cruise
