Cleek
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /kliːk/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Cleek is a noun meaning (golf, dated) A metal-headed golf club with little loft, equivalent in a modern set of clubs to a one or two iron or a four wood.
Meaning
(golf, dated) A metal-headed golf club with little loft, equivalent in a modern set of clubs to a one or two iron or a four wood.
More Meanings
- (golf, dated, transitive) To strike with the club called a cleek.
- (chiefly Scotland) A large hook.
Example Sentences
He had begun at four, playing with a miniature cleek and a found shilling ball over the municipal links.
[…] 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.
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.
Word Forms
- cleeks
- cleeking
- cleeked
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include clecking, cockyleeky, cley, crotchet, crook, cockyleekie.
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