cleat
noun /kliːt/
/kliːt/
- [countable] a small wooden or metal bar fastened to something, on which ropes may be fastened by winding
(可绕绳索的)小木桩,金属桩 - [countable] a piece of rubber on the bottom of a shoe, etc. to stop it from slipping
(鞋底等的)防滑钉 - cleats[plural] (North American English) shoes with cleats, often worn for playing sports
compare football boot, spike, stud (3)Topics Clothes and Fashionc2防滑(运动)鞋
词源Middle English (in the sense ‘wedge’): of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch kloot ‘ball, sphere’ and German Kloss ‘clod, dumpling’, also to clot and clout.