cleek

Word origin

Borrowed from Scots cleek.

Used in a sentence

• “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.”

• “[…] 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.”

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