cleat
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cleat
- /kliːt/
Rhymes with -iːt
Where it comes from
From Middle English clete, from Old English *clēat (“block, wedge”), from Proto-West Germanic *klaut, from Proto-Germanic *klautaz (“firm lump”), from Proto-Indo-European *gelewd-, from *gley- (“to glue, stick together, form into a ball”). Cognate with Dutch kloot (“ball; testicle”) and German Kloß (“clump”). See also clay and clout.
noun cleats
- A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc. [...] the people of that island erected lofty spars along the seacoast, to which the look-outs ascended by means of nailed cleats, something as fowls go upstairs in a hen-house.
- A continuous metal strip, or angled piece, used to secure metal components.
- A device to quickly affix a line or rope, and from which it is also easy to release.
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A protrusion on the bottom of a shoe or wheel meant for better traction.
Near-synonym: calk
Similar: calk
- An athletic shoe equipped with cleats. He needs to put on five pieces of gear: his helmet, left glove, right glove, left cleat, and right cleat.
verb cleats · cleating · cleated
- To strengthen with a cleat. An inner floor over the whole area of the deck provides a space for all the cable and pipe runs. On one side the cables are cleated into a duct which is sealed against the ingress of water and oil; the pipe lines run underneath the opposite side floor.
- To tie off, affix, stopper a line or rope, especially to a cleat.
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noun device to secure a rope
| Español | cornamusa |
|---|---|
| Português | grampo, malagueta |
| Français | taquet |
| Deutsch | Klampe |
| Italiano | galloccia |
| Русский | у́тка útka, крепи́тельная у́тка krepítelʹnaja útka |
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