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noun

Cleat n.

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

(Naut.) A device made of wood or metal, having two arms, around which turns may be taken with a line or rope so as to hold securely and yet be readily released. It is bolted by the middle to a deck or mast, etc., or it may be lashed to a rope.

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Etymology of 'Cleat'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cleat" Quotes from Famous Books

... exhibited a drawing, and continued: "Notice the box, which is two feet square inside and two feet high. See this cleat all around the inside, six inches from the top. That is to hold the frame of a cloth web, which fits ...

— The Wonder Island Boys: Conquest of the Savages • Roger Thompson Finlay

... toothbrush in a bundle and dropped it softly out of the window. Her room was in the L and her window at no very dangerous distance from the ground, though had it been, nothing could have stopped her at that moment. Somebody who had gone on the roof to clean out the gutters had left a cleat nailed to the side of the house about halfway between the window and the top of the back porch. Rebecca heard the sound of the sewing machine in the dining-room and the chopping of meat in the kitchen; so knowing the whereabouts of both her aunts, she scrambled ...

— Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm • Kate Douglas Wiggin

Words linked to "Cleat" : render, fix, strip, projection, furnish, provide, fastener, holdfast, secure, cleats, fastening, calkin, calk, supply