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Cleek   Listen
verb
Cleek  v. t.  (past claught; past part. cleeked; pres. part. cleeking)  (Scot & Dial. Eng.)
1.
To seize; clutch; snatch; catch; pluck.
2.
To catch or draw out with a cleek, as a fish; to hook.
3.
To hook or link (together); hence, to marry.






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"Cleek" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the presence of Mr. MORRIS, whose courtesy soon put him on a footing of friendliness and confidence. He purchased, by his Mentor's advice, a driver, a cleek, a putter, a brassey, an iron, a niblick, and a mashy. Armed with these implements, which were "carried by an orphan boy," and, under the guidance of the Head of the Faculty himself, BULGER set forth on his first round. His first two strokes were dealt on the yielding air; his third ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 103, November 19, 1892 • Various



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