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cleek
[ kleek ]
noun
- Chiefly Scot. a large hook, especially one fixed to the inside walls of a house to hold clothing, pots, or food.
- Golf: Older Use. a club with an iron head, a narrow face, and little slope, used for shots from a poor lie on the fairway and sometimes for putting.
verb (used with object)
- Chiefly Scot. to grasp or seize (something) suddenly and eagerly; snatch.
cleek
/ kliːk /
noun
- a large hook, such as one used to land fish
- golf a former name for a club, corresponding to the modern No. 1 or No. 2 iron, used for long low shots
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Example Sentences
A long cleek laid his ball off the green, a good approach stopped a little short of the hole, and the put went down.
A drive with a wooden club is almost sure to carry into the swamp, and only a careful cleek shot is safe.
Booverman sighted the hole, and then took his stance; but the cleek in his hand shook like an aspen.
No, but Cleek of what do you call your quarters—eh—ah—Scot-land Yard—eh—yes, he might!
If there were geraniums and fuchsias much would depend upon it, Cleek had murmured.
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