different between cleat vs cockscomb

English

Etymology

From Middle English clete, from Old English *cl?at, cl?ot, 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: kl?t, IPA^(key): /kli?t/
• Rhymes: -i?t

Noun

cleat (plural cleats)

1. A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 35

     [...] 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.

   • 1995, Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures, page 6:

2. A continuous metal strip, or angled piece, used to secure metal components.
3. (nautical) A device to quickly affix a line or rope, and from which it is also easy to release.
4. A protrusion on the bottom of a shoe meant for better traction. (See cleats.)

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Verb

cleat (third-person singular simple present cleats, present participle cleating, simple past and past participle cleated)

1. To strengthen with a cleat.
2. (nautical) To tie off, affix, stopper a line or rope, especially to a cleat.

Anagrams

• CELTA, Cleta, eclat, ectal, éclat

English

Alternative forms

• coxcomb

Etymology

From cock +? -s- +? comb.

Noun

cockscomb (plural cockscombs)

1. The fleshy red crest of a rooster
2. A red cap once worn by court jesters
3. A yellow rattle, Rhinanthus minor (flowering plant native to Eurasia)
4. An annual garden plant, Celosia cristata, having showy red clusters of flowers
   • 1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House Is Built, Chapter VII, Section xi

     She saw a square picture framed in the window, two whitewashed cottages each with a little winding path, a bed of red and yellow cockscomb, a sloping field, a row of gum-trees, a child in a blue sunbonnet carrying a basket.

5. (archaic) A conceited dandy
6. (nautical) A serrated cleat once fitted to the yards of a square-rigged ship and used when the sail was being reefed

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