Definitions for cleats

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cleats cleat

Spelling: [kleet]

IPA: /klit/

Cleats is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 184 anagrams from letters in cleats (acelst).

Definitions for cleats

noun

1. a wedge-shaped block fastened to a surface to serve as a check or support:
2. a strip of metal, wood, or the like, fastened across a surface, as a ramp or gangway, to provide sure footing or to maintain an object in place.
3. a strip of wood, metal, etc., fastened across a surface, as of a plank or series of adjacent planks, for strength or support.
4. a conical or rectangular projection, usually of hard rubber, or a metal strip with sharp projections, built into or attached to the sole of a shoe to provide greater traction.
5. a shoe fitted with such projections.
6. a metal plate fastened to the sole or heel of a shoe, to protect against wear.
7. Shipbuilding. a hook-shaped piece of metal supporting a small structural member.
8. Also called belaying cleat. Nautical. an object of wood or metal having one or two projecting horns to which ropes may be belayed, especially as fixed to the deck, bulkhead, or stanchion of a vessel.
9. the cleavage plane of coal as found in a mine.

verb (used with object)

1. to supply or strengthen with cleats; fasten to or with a cleat.

Origin of cleats

1350-1400; Middle English clete wedge, cognate with Old High German klōz lump, ball, Dutch kloot; akin to clot

Examples for cleats

If your halliards are belayed to cleats, marl them to the cleat.

Harvey saw half a dozen knives stuck in a cleat in the hatch combing.

The posts and cleat are surfaced on four sides, while the other pieces are surfaced on only two sides.

To let go altogether, instead of lowering with a turn on a cleat or bitt-head.

Get a line out, and we'll fasten to this cleat at our stern.

See this cleat all around the inside, six inches from the top.

This and the cleat on the stern-piece form rests for the stern seat.

He locked both hands on the cleat and closed his eyes in concentration.

Now to get a cleat or something across that window so we can take the rope with us!

This plate is soldered to the shank of the screw-eye and the cleat is complete.