Cleeks definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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A Christian's life they harm na, though they mak' it a mere weariness to him; but for him that quits the Prophet, tearing the flesh wi' iron cleeks is the best they hae for him This time Yusuf retreated, not as usual in anger, but as if the bare idea he had broached was too terrible to be dwelt upon.

—A Modern Telemachus

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A Christian's life they harm na, though they mak' it a mere weariness to him; but for him that quits the Prophet, tearing the flesh wi' iron cleeks is the best they hae for him This time Yusuf retreated, not as usual in anger, but as if the bare idea he had broached was too terrible to be dwelt upon. — A Modern Telemachus
Up his beggar duds [35] he cleeks, [36] — The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.)
A large proportion of the cleeks one sees about are too delicate and ladylike. — The Complete Golfer
I'll never master him without the light; and a braver kipper, could I but land him, never reisted abune a pair o 'cleeks.' [ — Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete
The salmon is usually dried by hanging it up, after being split and rubbed with salt, in the smoke of the turf fire above the cleeks, where it is said to 'reist,' that preparation being so termed. — Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete