cleat

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Pronunciation

• enPR: klēt, IPA: /kliːt/

Noun

cleat (plural cleats)

1. A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 35

     [...] 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 continuous metal strip, or angled piece, used to secure metal components.
3. (nautical) A device to quickly affix a line or rope, and from which it is also easy to release.
4. A protrusion on the bottom of a shoe meant for better traction. (See cleats.)

Translations

• German: Klampe
• Italian: galloccia
• Portuguese: grampo
• Russian: у́тка
• Spanish: cornamusa

Translations

• French: crampon
• German: Stollen
• Russian: шип
• Spanish: suela

Verb

cleat (cleats, present participle cleating; past and past participle cleated)

1. To strengthen with a cleat.
2. (nautical) To tie off, affix, stopper a line or rope, especially to a cleat.

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