Belaying is valid Scrabble Word

Is belaying a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is belaying valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
14 points in Scrabble
17 points in WWF

Definitions for BELAYING in dictionary:

VERB:

BELAY, to fasten a rope
fix (a running rope) round a cleat, rock, pin, or other object, to secure it.
secure (a climber) with a belayed rope
stop; desist from

NOUN:

an act of belaying
a spike of rock or other object used for belaying

Words related to BELAYING

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How to use BELAYING in a sentence

But being angry, and perhaps a little scared, I beat him to his quarters with a belaying pin.
I caught sight of Joe Punchard in the melee, his red head a flaming battle signal, wielding an iron belaying pin, every swing of it leaving the enemy one man the less.
Paul well understood the meaning of it and knew it to be the work of the second mate, who had beaten the men over the head with a belaying pin while they were reefing.
The mate sat on the edge of the hatch and gazed lovingly at the new instrument of torture, as he beat time to the inspiring strains, with a belaying pin.
Geach, the boatswain, swung himself on the stump of the bowsprit, and by making fast two belaying pins to the end of a line, he succeeded in throwing it on shore.

Similar words containing BELAY without suffix ing

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