Contents
- 1 English
- 1.1 Etymology
- 1.2 Pronunciation
- 1.3 Noun
- 1.3.1 Derived terms
- 1.3.2 Translations
- 1.4 Verb
- 1.5 Anagrams
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English clete, from Old English *clēat, clēot, 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; testicl*”) and German Kloß. See also clay and clout.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cleat (plural cleats)
- A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc.
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 35”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
[...] 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.
1995, Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures, page 6:
I had learned that cattle willingly walk down a ramp that has cleats to provide secure, nonslip footing.
- A continuous metal strip, or angled piece, used to secure metal components.
- (nautical) A device to quickly affix a line or rope, and from which it is also easy to release.
- A protrusion on the bottom of a shoe or wheel meant for better traction.
- An athletic shoe equipped with cleats.
2020, Allyssa Loya, Sporty Bugs and Errors, page 26:
He needs to put on five pieces of gear: his helmet, left glove, right glove, left cleat, and right cleat.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
device to secure a rope
- Bulgarian: кнехтm (kneht)
- Czech: rohatinka(cs)f, vazákm
- Dutch: klamp(nl)
- Finnish: knaapi, knaappi, köysipidin
- French: taquet(fr)
- German: Klampe(de)f
- Icelandic: krussholtn, klampim
- Italian: gallocciaf
- Norwegian: kryssholt
- Polish: knaga(pl)
- Portuguese: grampo(pt), malagueta(pt)f
- Russian: у́тка(ru)f (útka), крепительная у́ткаf (krepitelʹnaja útka)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Spanish: cornamusa(es)f
- Swedish: knap(sv)c
- Ukrainian: кнагаf (knaha)
protrusion on the bottom of a shoe
Verb[edit]
cleat (third-person singular simple present cleats, present participle cleating, simple past and past participle cleated)
- To strengthen with a cleat.
- (nautical) To tie off, affix, stopper a line or rope, especially to a cleat.
Anagrams[edit]
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