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Entry 5 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Cleek

/(klēk)/ · IPA /kliːk/
01 n. 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.
  1. 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.
  2. 2.
    Act of cleeking; a clutch.[Scot.]
02 v. t. To seize; clutch; snatch; catch; pluck.
pret. Claught; pret. & p. p. Cleeked; p. pr. & vb. n. Cleeking
  1. 1.
    To seize; clutch; snatch; catch; pluck.[Scot & Dial. Eng.]
  2. 2.
    To catch or draw out with a cleek, as a fish; to hook.
  3. 3.
    To hook or link (together); hence, to marry.