cleek

plural cleeks

1. ScotlandA large hook.
2. datedgolfA metal-headed golf club with little loft, equivalent in a modern set of clubs to a one or two iron or a four wood.

   He had begun at four, playing with a miniature cleek and a found shilling ball over the municipal links.

   1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not... (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 58

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   They wandered together along the shore with a couple of old "cleeks" brought from England and some wretched gutta-percha golf balls, to be driven on their last afternoon gloriously into the sea.

   1947, Malcolm Lowry, chapter 1, in Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock

present singular third person cleeks · participle present cleeking · participle past cleeked · past cleeked

1. datedtransitivegolfTo strike with the club called a cleek.

   […] ready to acclaim his exploits, and listen to volumes about every hole, and the marvellous way in which he cleeked his tee off the bogie.

   1914, Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey, Lady Cassandra, page 71

plural Cleeks

1. A surname.