Vocabulary : Cleat to Cleche
Cleat : A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc. ;; A device made of wood or metal, having two arms, around which turns may be taken with a line or rope so as to hold securely and yet be readily released. It is bolted by the middle to a deck or mast, etc., or it may be lashed to a rope. ;; To strengthen with a cleat.Cleavable : Capable of cleaving or being divided.
Cleavage : The act of cleaving or splitting. ;; The quality possessed by many crystallized substances of splitting readily in one or more definite directions, in which the cohesive attraction is a minimum, affording more or less smooth surfaces; the direction of the dividing plane; a fragment obtained by cleaving, as of a diamond. See Parting. ;; Division into laminae, like slate, with the lamination not necessarily parallel to the plane of deposition; -- usually produced by pressure.
Cleave : To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast; to cling. ;; To unite or be united closely in interest or affection; to adhere with strong attachment. ;; To fit; to be adapted; to assimilate. ;; To part or divide by force; to split or rive; to cut. ;; To part or open naturally; to divide. ;; To part; to open; to crack; to separate; as parts of bodies; as, the ground cleaves by frost.
Cleaved : of Cleave ;; of Cleave ;; of Cleave
