Use "cleat" in a sentence

1. Nowadays, real cyclists use shoes with a cleat on the sole that clips into a special pedal

2. my feet against the cleat that held my chain and avoided the

3. The man with the belly caught him with a right hand across the face, sending him crashing into the side of the boat, another yelp, less intense, and one more fist, now from above, crushing his head against a cleat, the blood rushing down his head

4. over a big steel cleat before running to the bow and tying that to the dock

5. She jumped off the boat and threw the bow line around a docking cleat

6. Of course, it was too dark to see, and it was only when Nostromo put his hand upon its painter fastened to a cleat in the stern that he experienced a full measure of relief

7. Until Cabaco's published discovery, the sailors had little foreseen it, though to be sure when, after being a little while out of port, all hands had concluded the customary business of fitting the whaleboats for service; when some time after this Ahab was now and then found bestirring himself in the matter of making thole-pins with his own hands for what was thought to be one of the spare boats, and even solicitously cutting the small wooden skewers, which when the line is running out are pinned over the groove in the bow: when all this was observed in him, and particularly his solicitude in having an extra coat of sheathing in the bottom of the boat, as if to make it better withstand the pointed pressure of his ivory limb; and also the anxiety he evinced in exactly shaping the thigh board, or clumsy cleat, as it is sometimes called, the horizontal piece in the boat's bow for bracing the knee against in darting or stabbing at the whale; when it was observed how often he stood up in that boat with his solitary knee fixed in the semi-circular depression in the cleat, and with the carpenter's chisel gouged out a little here and straightened it a little there; all these things, I say, had awakened much interest and curiosity at the time