Crossword clues for cleek
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cleek \Cleek\ (kl[=e]k), n.
A large hook or crook, as for a pot over a fire; specif., an iron-headed golf club with a straight, narrow face and a long shaft.
Act of cleeking; a clutch. [Scot.]
Cleek \Cleek\, v. t. [pret. Claught; pret. & p. p. Cleeked; p. pr. & vb. n. Cleeking.] [ME. cleken, clechen, to seize, clutch; perh. akin to E. clutch.] [Scot & Dial. Eng.]
To seize; clutch; snatch; catch; pluck.
To catch or draw out with a cleek, as a fish; to hook.
To hook or link (together); hence, to marry.
--Scott.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context chiefly Scotland English) A large hook. 2 (context golf dated English) A metal headed golf club with little loft. Equivalent to a one or two iron a modern set of clubs.
Usage examples of "cleek".
The night was filled with the croaking of frogs, the cleek, cleek, cleek of the black necked stilt, the zi-zi, zi-zi of cicadas, the choc, choc of the crow blackbirds, and the many other night songs of various wild creatures.
There cam a gowst of wind, claught her by the coats, and awa' wi' her bag and baggage.
It was a braw spring morn, and Tam whustled as he claught in the young geese.
My feelin's overcame me as I looked in her face and the child's, both lookin' like dyin' faces, and I sez with the tears a jest runnin' down my cleeks and a layin' my hand tender on her shoulder, "Is there anything I can do for you, you poor little creeter?
One feels so much at sea when talk turns to mashie-niblicks, cleeks, and mid-irons.