belaying cleat
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of belaying cleat
First recorded in 1860–65
Example Sentences
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They are called belaying cleat, deck-cleat, and a thumb-cleat.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
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