verb
- to seize or grab with a cleek (a hook or crook); to catch or hook
- in golf, to strike a ball with a cleek (a long-headed iron club)
Usage: Scottish or dialectal; archaic
Usage: golf; archaic
noun
- the act of seizing or catching with a hook or cleek
Usage: Scottish or dialectal; archaic
Examples
- He was cleeking fish from the stream with a long pole.
- The golfer practiced cleeking the ball down the fairway.
- She managed the cleeking of the rope with one swift motion.
- The old fisherman's cleeking technique had been passed down through generations.
- He avoided cleeking at the branches as he climbed through the thicket.