English

Noun

cleek ‎(plural cleeks)

1. (chiefly Scotland) A large hook.
2. (golf, dated) A metal headed golf club with little loft. Equivalent to a one or two iron a modern set of clubs.
   • 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not…, Penguin 2012 (Parade's End), p. 58:

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

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English cleken ‎(“to seize, clutch”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klik/

Noun

cleek ‎(plural cleeks)

1. A hook.
2. The act of cleeking; a clutch.

Verb

cleek ‎(third-person singular present cleeks, present participle cleekin, past claucht, past participle claucht)

1. To seize, clutch, snatch.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Allan Ramsay, Lucky Spence's Last Advice

     Cleek a'ye can be hook or crook.

2. To catch with a hook.
3. To hook or link together.
4. (by extension) To marry.