Complete Definition of "cleek"

English

Noun
en-noun

  1. context|sports|dated A metal headed golf club with little loft. Equivalent to a one or two iron a modern set of clubs.

Scots

Etymology
Apparently from OE.|sco, though unattested.

Pronunciation
IPA|/klik/

Verb
sco-verb|cleeks|cleekin|claucht

  1. To seize, clutch, snatch.

#:Cleek a'ye can be hook or crook. (Allan Ramsay, �Lucky Spence's Last Advice�)

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