'Cleek' definitions:
Definition of 'Cleek'
From: GCIDE
- Cleek \Cleek\ (kl[=e]k), n.
- 1. 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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 2. Act of cleeking; a clutch. [Scot.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Definition of 'Cleek'
From: GCIDE
- 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.]
- 1. To seize; clutch; snatch; catch; pluck. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 2. To catch or draw out with a cleek, as a fish; to hook. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 3. To hook or link (together); hence, to marry. --Scott. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]