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Cleek

klik
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Cleek
    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.
  2. Cleek
    Act of cleeking; a clutch.
  3. Cleek
    To catch or draw out with a cleek, as a fish; to hook.
  4. Cleek
    To hook or link (together); hence, to marry.
  5. Cleek
    To seize; clutch; snatch; catch; pluck.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) cleek
    See cleik.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Cleek
    klēk a large hook for catching hold of something, used in fishing, &c.: an iron-headed golf-club: a peg
  2. (v.t) Cleek
    to seize, snatch
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary ME. cleken, clechen, to seize, clutch; perh. akin to E. clutch,

Usage in the news

When the 4-by-8-foot piece of exterior plywood wouldn't fit in the car, Jaden Cleek was ready to give up plans to build a birdhouse for the owls he'd seen in his backyard. courierpress.com

Thedamay Kitchen Cleek , a longtime resident of Sikeston, died Jan 10, 2002, at the Sikeston Convalescent Center. standard-democrat.com

Usage in scientific papers

Cleek, “Refractive indices of fused silica at low temperatures,” J.
Temperature-dependent absolute refractive index measurements of synthetic fused silica

Usage in literature

Only a cleek's no good. "The Brother of Daphne" by Dornford Yates

Making a broad classification, there are driving cleeks, ordinary cleeks, pitching cleeks, and cleeks with the weight in the centre. "The Complete Golfer [1905]" by Harry Vardon

Cleek will do, Cleek of the Forty Faces. "Cleek, the Master Detective" by Thomas W. Hanshew

I have saved fifty-eight pounds, Mr. Cleek. "The Boy Scouts Book of Stories" by Various

Cleek of Scotland Yard. "The Spoilers of the Valley" by Robert Watson

Cleek of Scotland Yard. "The Plunderer" by Roy Norton

Cleek of Scotland Yard. "The Crimson Tide" by Robert W. Chambers

Mr. Cleek, the guv'ner, sir. "Cleek of Scotland Yard" by Thomas W. Hanshew

Cleek of Scotland Yard. "The Blind Man's Eyes" by William MacHarg

Come with me at once, Cleek. "The Riddle of the Night" by Thomas W. Hanshew

Usage in poetry
'Yet autumn's gloom, though threat'ning bleak
Has joys, gin folk cam joys wad seek;
Friendship and worth then social cleek
And twine thegither,
And gree and crack by ingle cheek
Just like twin-brither.