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Cleek

//kliːk// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A large hook. Scotland
  2. 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. 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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Scots cleek.

Etymology 2

From Scots cleek.

Etymology 3

* 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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