cleek

From Scots cleek.

• IPA^(key): /kliːk/

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• Rhymes: -iːk
• Homophone: clique

cleek (plural cleeks)

1. (chiefly Scotland) A large hook.
2. (golf, dated) A metal-headed golf club with little loft, equivalent in a modern set of clubs to a one or two iron or a four wood.
   • 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not..., Penguin 2012 (Parade's End), p. 58:

     He had begun at four, playing with a miniature cleek and a found shilling ball over the municipal links.

cleek (third-person singular simple present cleeks, present participle cleeking, simple past and past participle cleeked)

1. (golf, dated, transitive) To strike with the club called a cleek.
   • 1914, Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey, Lady Cassandra (page 71)

     […] ready to acclaim his exploits, and listen to volumes about every hole, and the marvellous way in which he cleeked his tee off the bogie.

• Eckel, eckle

From Middle English cleken (“to seize, clutch”); see English clutch.

• IPA^(key): /klik/

cleek (plural cleeks)

1. A hook.
2. The act of cleeking; a clutch.

• a-cleek

cleek (third-person singular simple present cleeks, present participle cleekin, simple past claucht, past participle claucht)

1. To seize, clutch, snatch.
   • c. 1718, Allan Ramsay, Lucky Spence's Last Advice

     Cleek a'ye can be hook or crook.

2. To catch with a hook.
3. To hook or link together.
4. (by extension) To marry.