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cleek
/kliːk/
noun 2verb 1name 1
Collocations
2ADJ.
miniature
PREP.
with
Definitions
noun
1
A large hook.
2
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.
verb
1
To strike with the club called a cleek.
[…] ready to acclaim his exploits, and listen to volumes about every hole, and the marvellous way in which he cleeked his tee off the bogie.
name
1
A surname.
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He had begun at four, playing with a miniature cleek and a found shilling ball over the municipal links.
Wiktionary02
[…] ready to acclaim his exploits, and listen to volumes about every hole, and the marvellous way in which he cleeked his tee off the bogie.
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