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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.
Capable of cleaving or being divided.
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.
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.
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A variety of albite, white and lamellar in structure.
One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.
A species of Galium (G. Aparine), having a fruit set with hooked bristles, which adhere to whatever they come in contact with; -- called also, goose grass, catchweed, etc.
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