cleek

noun

1. (Scotland)A large hook.
2. (dated)A metal-headed golf club with little loft, equivalent in a modern set of clubs to a one or two iron or a four wood.

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

   “They wandered together along the shore with a couple of old "cleeks" brought from England and some wretched gutta-percha golf balls, to be driven on their last afternoon gloriously into the sea.”

verb

1. (dated, transitive)To strike with the club called a cleek.

   “[…] ready to acclaim his exploits, and listen to volumes about every hole, and the marvellous way in which he cleeked his tee off the bogie.”

name

1. A surname.