[f. CLEAT sb.]
1. trans. To fasten to, or with, a cleat; to furnish with cleats.
1794. Rigging & Seamanship, I. 34. Cleating of yards.
1835. Sir J. Ross, N.-W. Pass., iii. 38. Having lashed and cleeted the heel about ten feet below the lower rigging.
1847. Key, Recov. Gorgon, 34. Chocks of timber firmly bolted and cleated to each bow.
1882. C. H. White, in Century Mag., Oct., 827/1. Another wide door led, by a gently descending cleated platform, to the ground.
2. dial. (See quots. and cf. CLEAT sb. 4 b.)
a. 1825. Forby, Voc. East Anglia, Cleat, to strengthen with thin plates of metal. Shoe-heels are often cleated with iron; and kitchen utensils worn thin, with copper.
1825. Britton, Wiltsh. Words, Cleet, to mend with a patch.
