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Cleat
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- 1 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."
- 2 a strip of wood or metal used to strengthen the surface to which it is attached wordnet
- 3 A continuous metal strip, or angled piece, used to secure metal components.
- 4 a fastener (usually with two projecting horns) around which a rope can be secured wordnet
- 5 A device to quickly affix a line or rope, and from which it is also easy to release.
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- 6 a metal or leather projection (as from the sole of a shoe); prevents slipping wordnet
- 7 A protrusion on the bottom of a shoe or wheel meant for better traction.
"Near-synonym: calk"
- 8 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."
- 1 To strengthen with a cleat.
- 2 secure on a cleat wordnet
- 3 To tie off, affix, stopper a line or rope, especially to a cleat.
- 4 provide with cleats wordnet
Etymology
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.
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.
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