cleets

October 7, 2009 at 12:04 am g1, rd! ai hadsta laff at teh vikings an pakkers wearing pink cleets an glubs on Mundane nite

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The look on his face when he scored it was priceless and it took me awhile to make sure the cleets on my soccer shoes were firmly to the ground.

Kids say the most amazing things 2007

Being floored gives them the appearance of being absolutely flat-bottomed; but, though they tilt readily, they are very safe, being heavily built and fitted together with singular precision with wooden bolts and a few copper cleets.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

And in the present instance, all this was heightened by the sight of the two officers of the strange ship, leaning over the side, by the perpendicular ladder of nailed cleets there, and swinging towards him a pair of tastefully-ornamented man-ropes; for at first they did not seem to bethink them that a one-legged man must be too much of a cripple to use their sea bannisters.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

This is on rockers, six or eight feet long, open at the foot, and its head had a coarse grate, or sieve; the bottom is rounded, with small cleets nailed across.

What I Saw in California Edwin Bryant

The sieve keeps the coarse stones from entering the cradle, the current of water washes off the earthy matter, and the gravel is gradually carried out at the foot of the machine, leaving the gold mixed with a heavy fine black sand above the first cleets.

What I Saw in California Edwin Bryant

Take in the topgallants, wind up the mizzenmast and reef the cleets!

A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago Ben Hecht 1929

Taking a small line, he made the middle of it fast to the end of the tiller; then passing it round the cleets, he tied the ends together.

Little By Little or, The Cruise of the Flyaway Oliver Optic 1859

And in the present instance, all this was heightened by the sight of the two officers of the strange ship, leaning over the side, by the perpendicular ladder of nailed cleets there, and swinging towards him a pair of tastefully-ornamented man-ropes; for at first they did not seem to bethink them that a one-legged man must be too much of a cripple to use their sea bannisters.

Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

And in the present instance, all this was heightened by the sight of the two officers of the strange ship, leaning over the side, by the perpendicular ladder of nailed cleets there, and swinging towards him a pair of tastefully-ornamented man-ropes; for at first they did not seem to bethink them that a one-legged man must be too much of a cripple to use their sea bannisters.

Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855