Cleated vs Cleaved - What's the difference?
cleated | cleaved |
(cleat)
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
As a verb cleated
is past tense of cleat.As an adjective cleaved is
cleft or cloven.cleated
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Verb
(head)cleat
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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.