cleek

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cleek - n., (Scot.) a large hook, esp. one on a wall for hanging food or utensils; (Golf) an old name for #1 iron club or (sometimes) #4 wood club. v., (Scot.) to suddenly grasp or seize, to draw up or out with a cleek; (Scot.) to hook together, marry; (Scot.) to load a cage at the bottom of a mine shaft.


All senses Scottish, in other words, and I'm probably missing a couple. From Northern Middle English cleke, hook, from cleke, to take hold of, a variant of of cleche, related to clutch.

---L.