cleek
/kliːk/
cleek noun: a large hook.
Noun
cleek (plural cleeks)
- A large hook.
- 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
Verb
cleek (third-person singular simple present cleeks, present participle cleeking, simple past and past participle cleeked)
- 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.1914, Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey, Lady Cassandra, page 71
Proper noun capitalized: Cleek
Cleek (plural Cleeks)
- A surname.
cleek meaning in Tamil
cleek in Tamil
- சுவர் கொக்கி
Forms of cleek
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | cleeks |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | cleeks |
| present participle | cleeking |
| past participle | cleeked |
| past | cleeked |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Cleeks |
Origin of cleek
Borrowed from Scots cleek.
* As a German surname, spelling variant of Glück. * As an English surname, spelling variant of Clerke, Clerk, and from Old English cleaca (“stepping stone”), from Proto-Celtic *klukā (“stone”).
Words formed from cleek
Words that rhyme with cleek
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- leak
- seek
- bespeak
- pique
- tweak
- reek
- sleek
- geek
- peek
- squeak
- week
- wreak
- boutique
- clique
- creek
- forspeak
- gleek
- unique
- bleak
- cacique
- creak
- critique
- deke
- eek
- eke
- fleak
- on fleek
- respeak
- Tajik
- teak
- technique
- tongue-in-chic
- chic
- desqueak
- leek
- malik
- meek
- midweek
- misspeak
- physique
- pratique
- shriek
- speke
- streek
- Zeke
- -speak
- Adam's Peak
- advertique
Questions about cleek
- What does cleek mean?
- Cleek means a large hook.
- What is cleek in Tamil?
- Cleek in Tamil is சுவர் கொக்கி. See Cleek meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is cleek?
- Cleek can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce cleek?
- Cleek is pronounced /kliːk/.
- What is the plural of cleek?
- The plural of cleek is cleeks.
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