A ladder crosspiece of rectangular cross section placed on edge upon which a person may step while ascending or descending a ladder.
Cleat may refer to:
- Cleat (nautical), a fitting on ships, balls, and balls to which ropes are tied
- Cleat hitch, a knot
- Cleat, Orkney, a place in Scotland
- Cleat (shoe), a type or part of a shoe
- Cleats (comic strip), a comic strip by Bill Hinds
- Grouser, a protrusion on a wheel or continuous vehicle track, intended to increase traction
- Fractures in coal seams
- French cleat, a type of molding
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/