cleek

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Indeed, this was a new Turkey--a haughty, angular, nose-lifted Turkey--whom they accompanied through a shrubbery on to a lawn, where a white-whiskered old gentleman with a cleek was alternately putting and blaspheming vigorously Are you Colonel Dabney?"

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  1. noun Sports A number one golf iron, having very little loft to the club face.
  2. noun Sports A number four wood.
  3. noun Scots A large hook, such as one used to hang a pot over a fire.

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  • Indeed, this was a new Turkey--a haughty, angular, nose-lifted Turkey--whom they accompanied through a shrubbery on to a lawn, where a white-whiskered old gentleman with a cleek was alternately putting and blaspheming vigorously Are you Colonel Dabney?" —  Stalky ; Co.
  • Indeed, this was a new Turkey -- a haughty, angular, nose-lifted Turkey -- whom they accompanied through a shrubbery on to a lawn, where a white-whiskered old gentleman with a cleek was alternately putting and blaspheming vigorously. —  Stalky & Co.
  • Some golfers think that an iron or a cleek is just the right length for them when there are still a few inches of stick projecting inwards, towards their bodies, when they have made their grip. —  The Complete Golfer
  • But one finds by long experience that the cleek is the best and most reliable club for use in all these difficult circumstances. —  The Complete Golfer
  • Now we may examine the peculiarities of play with the cleek, the term for the remainder of this chapter being taken to include the driving mashie. —  The Complete Golfer
 

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  1. Middle English cleike, large hook, from cleken, to grasp, variant of clechen, from Old English *clǣcan; probably akin to clyccan, to clutch.
 

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