cleek

• POS: Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

cleek, n. 

•  A large hook or crook, as for a pot over a fire; specif., an iron-headed golf club with a straight, narrow face and a long shaft.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
•  Act of cleeking; a clutch.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

cleek, v. t. [ME. cleken, clechen, to seize, clutch; perh. akin to E. clutch.].

•  To seize; clutch; snatch; catch; pluck.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
•  To catch or draw out with a cleek, as a fish; to hook.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
•  To hook or link (together); hence, to marry.  Scott.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]