cleek

From the Scots.

cleek (plural cleeks)

1. (chiefly Scotland) A large hook.
2. (golf, dated) A metal-headed golf club with little loft, equivalent to a one or two iron in a modern set of clubs.
   • 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not..., Penguin 2012 (Parade's End), p. 58:

     He had begun at four, playing with a miniature cleek and a found shilling ball over the municipal links.

• Eckel, eckle

From Middle English cleken (“to seize, clutch”)

• IPA^(key): /klik/

cleek (plural cleeks)

1. A hook.
2. The act of cleeking; a clutch.

cleek (third-person singular present cleeks, present participle cleekin, past claucht, past participle claucht)

1. To seize, clutch, snatch.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Allan Ramsay, Lucky Spence's Last Advice

     Cleek a'ye can be hook or crook.

2. To catch with a hook.
3. To hook or link together.
4. (by extension) To marry.