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2. Cleat (nautical) - Wikipedia

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   A cleat hitch is a knot used to secure a rope to a cleat. A line tied with a cleat hitch to a horn cleat [ 1 ] on a dock. The line comes from a boat off the top of the picture, around the right horn, around the left horn, across the cleat from top left to bottom right, around the right horn, and then hitches around the left horn.

3. Belaying pin - Wikipedia

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   A belaying pin is composed of a round handle and cylindrical shaft. The shaft is inserted into a hole in various strategically located wooden pinrails (lining the inside of the bulwarks, surrounding the base of masts, or free-standing, called fife rails) up to the base of the handle.

4. Pop-up satellite archival tag - Wikipedia

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   Pop-up satellite archival tags (PSATs) are used to track movements of (usually large, migratory) marine animals. A PSAT (also commonly referred to as a PAT tag) is an archival tag (or data logger ) that is equipped with a means to transmit the collected data via the Argos satellite system .

5. Lashed-lug boat - Wikipedia

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   An example of this tradition is the Nydam boat, dated to 310-320 CE. This particular boat combined metal fastenings of planks, sewn planks and lashed cleats/lugs connecting to ribs. An earlier example (400-300 BCE), the Hjortspring boat is based on a dugout log which is expanded with sewn clinker planks with integral cleats/lugs lashed to framing.

6. Cleat - Wikipedia

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   Cleat may refer to: Cleat (nautical), a fitting on ships, balls, and balls to which ropes are tied; Cleat hitch, a knot; Cleat, Orkney, a place in Scotland; Cleat (shoe), a type or part of a shoe; Cleats (comic strip), a comic strip by Bill Hinds; Grouser, a protrusion on a wheel or continuous vehicle track, intended to increase traction ...

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