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Definition of Cleats
1. Noun. Shoes with leather or metal projections on the soles. "The football players all wore cleats"
Definition of Cleats
1. Noun. (plural of cleat) ¹
2. Noun. (plural only) A pair of athletic shoes equipped with cleats. ¹
3. Verb. (third-person singular of cleat) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cleats
1. cleat [v] - See also: cleat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cleats
Literary usage of Cleats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1907)
"There are usually two sets of these joints, or cleats, which are commonly at
right angles, ... Joints in coal seams are more often spoken of as cleats. ..."
2. Examination Questions for Certificates of Competency as Mine Inspector, Mine (1907)
"The cleats of a formation are the joints of cleavage at right angles, ...
All cleats are planes of cleavage, hut all cleavage planes are not cleats. ..."
3. Engineering Geology Applied to the Design and Operation of Underground Coal by C. Richard Dunrud (2000)
"Cleat in coal—cleats commonly occur in coal as two sets that dip steeply to
vertically; nearly perpendicular fracture systems are called face cleats and ..."
4. Estimating Sheet Metal Work by Adolf Hopp, Neubecker, William 1864- (1921)
"Determining Number of cleats for Standing and Cross Locks To find the approximate
number of cleats for the standing and cross locks, the following rule can ..."
5. Practical Sheet Metal Work and Demonstrated Patterns: A Comprehensive Treatise by John Henry Teschmacher (1910)
"The Placing of Roof cleats Another method of cleating to that recommended in Fig.
... When the cleats are placed in this way the sheet is not apt to buckle ..."
6. Mining Engineers' Handbook by Robert Peele (1918)
"Bituminous coals usually two cleavage planes or cleats, running approx at ri|
... In driving JACE- ON, the face of the room is parallel to the face cleats. ..."
7. The Kedge-anchor; Or, Young Sailors' Assistant: Or, Young Sailors' Assistant by William N. Brady (1864)
"If the belaying-cleats for studding-sail tacks and halliards, topgallant and
royal lifts, and royal sheets, are placed on the cross- pieces, or carlines of ..."
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