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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  • Why should any of us even bother pretending anymore that there is such a thing as "news" or "journalism" when we can see with our own eyes that that is clearly not the case? hate, cleek, hate. —  Obsidian Wings
  • Plans that rely on tax cuts as the main stimulus hate puppies. cleek: —  Balloon Juice
  • These are people who will go from having all the power to having none, and I don't think they'll react well to that state of affairs. cleek: which seems so innocent, compared to trying to parse the meaning of "enemy combatant", or "United States Person", or "covert", or "torture". —  Liblogs.ca latest blog entries
  • No! Hurrah For a moment it seemed as if Master Trench had got Neptune himself on his cleek, so severely did his stout frame quiver. —  The Crew of the Water Wagtail
  • Say pilate boat long way uppee liver in big cleek, waitee come down along lunning water in the dalk Then you pretty well know where they are?" —  Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser
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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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