Cleat vs Clept - What's the difference?
cleat | clept |
A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc.
* 1851 ,
A continuous metal strip, or angled piece, used to secure metal components.
(nautical) A device to quickly affix a line or rope, and from which it is also easy to release.
A protrusion on the bottom of a shoe meant for better traction. (See cleats.)
To strengthen with a cleat.
(nautical) To tie off, affix, stopper a line or rope, especially to a cleat
(obsolete) (clepe)
English irregular simple past forms
English irregular past participles
As verbs the difference between cleat and clept
is that cleat is to strengthen with a cleat while clept is past tense of clepe.As a noun cleat
is a strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc.cleat
English
Noun
(en noun)- [...] 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.