Cleat

Quick meaning: Cleat is a noun meaning A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc.

Meaning

A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc.

More Meanings

1. A continuous metal strip, or angled piece, used to secure metal components.
2. (nautical) A device to quickly affix a line or rope, and from which it is also easy to release.
3. A protrusion on the bottom of a shoe or wheel meant for better traction.
4. An athletic shoe equipped with cleats.
5. To strengthen with a cleat.
6. (nautical) To tie off, affix, stopper a line or rope, especially to a cleat.

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: calk

I had learned that cattle willingly walk down a ramp that has cleats to provide secure, nonslip footing.

He needs to put on five pieces of gear: his helmet, left glove, right glove, left cleat, and right cleat.

[...] 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.

Word Forms

• cleats
• cleating
• cleated

Synonyms for cleat

Depending on context, synonyms include calk.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include clamp, shoe, clasp, blakey, kevel, creeper.

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