Usually means: Attachment on shoes for traction.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. cleat: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. cleat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cleat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cleat: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cleat: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cleat, cleat: Wordnik
  7. cleat: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cleat: Wiktionary
  9. cleat: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cleat: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cleat: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cleat, cleat: Dictionary.com
  13. cleat: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cleat: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Cleat (nautical), Cleat (shoe), Cleat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Cleat: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. cleat: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. cleat: Rhymezone
  19. Cleat: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. cleat: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. cleat: Free Dictionary
  22. cleat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. cleat: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cleat: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cleat: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CLEAT: Acronym Finder

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cleat: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. cleat: Urban Dictionary

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Cleat: Bicycle Glossary
  3. cleat: Golfer's Dictionary
  4. Cleat: Sports Definitions

Tech (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Roofing Terms (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  5. Cleat: Glossary of Insulator Terms
  6. Woodworking Glossary (No longer online)
  7. CLEAT: Glossary of Nautical Terms
  8. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  9. Cleat: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See cleated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc.
noun:  A continuous metal strip, or angled piece, used to secure metal components.
noun:  (nautical) A device to quickly affix a line or rope, and from which it is also easy to release.
noun:  A protrusion on the bottom of a shoe or wheel meant for better traction.
noun:  An athletic shoe equipped with cleats.
verb:  To strengthen with a cleat.
verb:  (nautical) To tie off, affix, stopper a line or rope, especially to a cleat.

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