verb
- past tense of cleek; to seize or grab with a hook or crook
- past tense of cleek; to strike with a golf club (a cleek, a long-iron club)
Usage: Scottish/dialectal; archaic
Usage: golf; archaic
Examples
- He cleeked the fish from the stream with a practiced motion.
- The shepherd cleeked the wayward lamb with his crook.
- She cleeked the ball down the fairway with her iron.
- The old golfer cleeked his approach shot onto the green.
- He cleeked at the rope but missed his grip.