cleek
See also: Cleek
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cleek (plural cleeks)
- (chiefly Scotland) A large hook.
- (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... (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 58:
- He had begun at four, playing with a miniature cleek and a found shilling ball over the municipal links.
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cleek (third-person singular simple present cleeks, present participle cleeking, simple past and past participle cleeked)
- (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.
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From Middle English cleken (“to seize, clutch”); see English clutch.
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cleek (plural cleeks)
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cleek (third-person singular simple present cleeks, present participle cleekin, simple past claucht, past participle claucht)