vbl. sb. [f. prec. + -ING1.]
† 1. A lying in wait. Obs.
1677. Feltham, Disc. Eccles., ii. 11, 346. Experienc’d in the belayings, the ingrossings, the circumventions of Merchandizing.
2. Naut. The coiling of running ropes round pins, etc.; chiefly attrib., as in belaying-cleat, -pin.
1836. Marryat, Pirate, iii. Ropes … neatly secured to copper belaying-pins.
1862. F. Griffiths, Artil. Man., 133. The belaying cleats on the bow beam.
