cleats
cleats Lexical Profile
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• noun
North American Athletic shoes fitted with projecting studs or ridges on the soles to provide extra traction on grass, turf, or dirt surfaces.
"The soccer players laced up their cleats in the locker room before heading out onto the wet pitch."
Projections of metal, hard rubber, or plastic on the sole of a shoe or boot designed to prevent slipping.
"Several of the plastic cleats on the bottom of his shoes had worn down after a long season on artificial turf."
T-shaped pieces of metal or wood on a boat, ship, or dock around which ropes or halyards are fastened.
"The sailor secured the mooring lines tightly around the heavy brass cleats on the dock."
• verb
To fasten or secure a rope or line to a cleat, or to reinforce a structure with a cleat (third-person singular simple present of cleat).
"The deckhand quickly cleats the halyard to the mast as the sailboat pulls into the harbor."
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Word Origin & Etymology
From Middle English 'clete' (a wedge or lump), dating back to a West Germanic root meaning 'lump' or 'mass', which is also related to 'clot' and 'clod'.