belaying pin

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

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   ship

Questions about belaying pin

What does belaying pin mean?

belaying pin means "a wood or metal bar to which a rope can be secured (as on a ship or in mountain climbing)".

Is belaying pin a common word?

belaying pin is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.