cleat
4
7.7
- noun
- /klit/
- Specialized
:
cornamusa
- The rope reaches its full length, pulls taut, and then the metal cleat fastening it to the mast breaks loose, sailing toward the front of the ship.
- mooring cleat
- dock cleat
- stern cleat
Examples
-
The rope end squirmed and slithered around the cleat, letting out the line.
Fiction book (1994) -
Make it fast to the cleats.
-
- And with a metal cleat on the end of it.
-
Brody, bring your end around the cleat.
-
There's a mooring cleat down there.
-
"Johnny Atwater," he said, tying his end of the line to his stern cleat.
Fiction book (2001) -
The giant loops of rope were just secured to the metal cleats on the dock.
Fiction book (1992) -
Derrick, the dockhand, whistles in the darkness as he coils the bow rope of a service boat around a cleat on the dock.
Fiction book (1998) -
Harry wades in up to his waist to walk the boat out, then heaves himself aboard, barking his shin on a cleat, and grabs at the line attached to the aluminum boom.
Fiction book (1990) -
The sailors used a strong rope to secure the boat to the cleat on the dock.
How Secure
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word cleat originally meant a small block or peg used to hold things. A boat cleat is a metal or wooden fitting with arms where you 'fasten' a rope, so the name fits because it 'holds' the line.