cleek
verbEtymology Borrowed from Scots cleek.
cleek
noun/kliːk/
Etymology Borrowed from Scots cleek.
1
Scotland A large hook.
2
Golf, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports 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.
- 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:
- 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: