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n. A strip of wood or iron used to strengthen or support the surface to which it is attached.

n. A projecting piece of metal or hard rubber attached to the underside of a shoe to provide traction.

n. A pair of shoes with such projections on the soles.

n. A piece of metal or wood having projecting arms or ends on which a rope can be wound or secured.

n. A wedge-shaped piece of material, such as wood, that is fastened onto something, such as a spar, to act as a support or prevent slippage.

n. A spurlike device used in gripping a tree or pole in climbing.

v. To supply, support, secure, or strengthen with a cleat.

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

n. A continuous metal strip, or angled piece, used to secure metal components.

n. A device to quickly affix a line or rope, and from which it is also easy to release.

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

v. To strengthen with a cleat.

v. To tie off, affix, stopper a line or rope, especially to a cleat

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

n. 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.

v. To strengthen with a cleat.

n. . The burdock.

n. Butter-bur.

n. . Nautical:

n. A piece of wood or iron consisting of a bar with arms, to which ropes are belayed.

n. A piece of wood nailed down to secure something from slipping.

n. A piece of iron fastened under a shoe to preserve the sole.

n. A piece of wood nailed on transversely to a piece of joinery for the purpose of securing it in its proper position or of strengthening it.

n. A strip nailed or otherwise secured across a board, post, etc., for any purpose, as for supporting the end of a shelf.

n. A trunnion-bracket on a gun-carriage.

To strengthen with a cleat or cleats.

n. In coalmining, the principal set of cleavage-planes by which the coal is divided.

v. secure on a cleat

n. a fastener (usually with two projecting horns) around which a rope can be secured

n. a strip of wood or metal used to strengthen the surface to which it is attached

n. a metal or leather projection (as from the sole of a shoe); prevents slipping

v. provide with cleats

""A man might or might not have many reasons for calling a cleat a timber noggin besides that of not knowing any better than to do so," I responded."

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