cleat

English

Etymology

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; testicle”) and German Kloß. See also clay and clout.

Pronunciation

• enPR: klēt, IPA^(key): /kliːt/
• Rhymes: -iːt

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.

   

   Nautical cleat

4. A protrusion on the bottom of a shoe meant for better traction. (See cleats.)

Translations

device to secure a rope

• Bulgarian: кнехт m (kneht)
• Finnish: knaapi
• German: Klampe (de) f
• Italian: galloccia f
• Polish: knaga (pl)
• Portuguese: grampo (pt)
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• Russian: у́тка (ru) f (útka), крепительная у́тка f (krepitelʹnaja útka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: би̏тва f

  Roman: bȉtva (sh) f

• Spanish: cornamusa f
• Swedish: knap

protrusion on the bottom of a shoe

• Bulgarian: кабър m (kabǎr)
• French: crampon (fr) m
• German: Stollen (de) m
• Norman: tatchet m
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• Romanian: crampon (ro) n
• Russian: шип (ru) m (šip)
• Spanish: suela (es) f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked‌: "spike on the bottom of an athletic shoe"

• Hungarian: ^{(please verify)} stopli
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• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} dubb (sv) n, ^{(please verify)} klampe

Verb

cleat (third-person singular simple present cleats, present participle cleating, simple 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.

Anagrams

• CELTA, Cleta, eclat, ectal, éclat