Cleek
//kliːk// name, noun, verb
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A large hook. Scotland
- 2 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. dated
"He had begun at four, playing with a miniature cleek and a found shilling ball over the municipal links."
Verb
- 1 To strike with the club called a cleek. dated, transitive
"[…] 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."
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
Example
More examples"He had begun at four, playing with a miniature cleek and a found shilling ball over the municipal links."
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Scots cleek.
Etymology 2
* As a German surname, spelling variant of Glück. * As an English surname, spelling variant of Clerke, Clerk, and from Old English cleaca (“stepping stone”), from Proto-Celtic *klukā (“stone”).
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