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单词 cleek
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cleekn.

Brit. /kliːk/, U.S. /klik/, Scottish English /klik/
Forms: Middle English–1500s cleke, Middle English–1600s cleik, 1700s– cleek.
Etymology: Related to cleek v.; compare southern Middle English cleche . Compare also click n.1 and int.
Chiefly Scottish.
1.
a. A large hook or crook for catching hold of and pulling something; or for hanging articles on, from a rafter, or the like. Cleeks are used by fishermen.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > clutching or gripping equipment > [noun] > hook
hookc900
haspedec1400
cleek1426
cleek-staffc1440
cramp1503
hock1530
gib-crook1564
cramp-iron1565
gib1567
cramper1598
bench hook1619
crampon1660
wall-hook1681
dressing hook1683
woodcock-eye1796
doghook1821
click1846
clipper1849
ice hook1853
witchetty1862
slip-hook1863
snap-hook1875
clip-hook1882
pelican1890
snake hook1944
1426 Acts Jas. I (1597) §7 Cleikes of irin, to draw downe Timber and Ruiffis that ar fired.
1541 Sc. Ld. Treas. Acc. in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. I. *310 Nalis, [or] clekis to hing þe clathis.
1682 Claverhouse in Napier Mem. (1859) I. i. 137 The smith at Minnigaff, that made all the clikys.
17.. Anc. Poems Peasantry (1846) 113 He has made a cleek but and a creel.
1762 A. Dickson Treat. Agric. ii. v. 180 B is a hook, or the cleek as it is commonly called, which joins the muzzle and swingle-tree.
1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel III. xii. 331 He hings his sword on the cleek.
1865 Reader 12 Aug. 172/1 Having lost a hand..Ronald has had it replaced by an iron hook, which he calls a ‘cleek’.
b. Golf. An iron-headed club with a straight, narrow face and a long shaft. Also attributive.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > equipment > [noun] > club > types of club
play club1685
putting club1690
gentlemen's club1709
putter1783
spoon1790
iron1793
sand-iron1796
whip-club1808
cleek1829
driving putter1833
bunker-iron1857
driver1857
niblick1857
putting iron1857
baffing-spoon1858
mid-spoon1858
short spoon1858
sand-club1873
three-wood1875
long iron1877
driving cleek1881
mashie1881
putting cleek1881
track-iron1883
driving iron1887
lofting-iron1887
baffy1888
brassy1888
bulger1889
lofter1889
lofter1892
jigger1893
driving mashie1894
mid-iron1897
mashie-niblick1907
wood1915
pinsplitter1916
chipper1921
blaster1937
sand-wedge1937
wedge1937
1829 J. S. Blackie Let. 11 Dec. in Lett. to Wife (1909) 42 As if the golfers at St. Andrews should go down to the links..with an immense array of all sorts of clubs, and then, after having swung their drivers and cleques most scientifically in the air, should come back again without playing a single game.
1857 Chambers's Information for People (new ed.) II. 696/1 Some few golfers put almost exclusively with a metal club, an iron or cleek.
1883 Standard 16 Nov. 5/2 He..is ready with..the cleek [at golf].
1890 H. G. Hutchinson in H. G. Hutchinson et al. Golf (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) iv. 102 It is a stroke..with the brassy, cleek or iron.
1893 H. G. Hutchinson Golfing (ed. 2) 19 We cannot be far wrong in advising the golfer to choose his cleek-heads thick.
1909 P. A. Vaile Mod. Golf 107 The ordinary cleek shot.
2. An act of cleeking, a clutch.
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the world > movement > absence of movement > hold or holding > [noun] > firmness of hold > grip or grasp
gripOE
handgripOE
holtc1375
cleeka1400
handfast1540
handy-gripe1542
handigrip1579
gripple1596
fang1597
grasp1609
clutch1785
death grip1792
a1400–50 Alexander 2163 May vs noȝt limp..To couer be cas at a cleke courseris a thousand?
3. Name of some griping disease; Jamieson says ‘cramp in the legs’. Obsolete.
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a1605 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart 301 The cords and the cout-euill, the claisps and the cleiks.

Compounds

cleek-staff, cleek-shank, etc.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > clutching or gripping equipment > [noun] > hook
hookc900
haspedec1400
cleek1426
cleek-staffc1440
cramp1503
hock1530
gib-crook1564
cramp-iron1565
gib1567
cramper1598
bench hook1619
crampon1660
wall-hook1681
dressing hook1683
woodcock-eye1796
doghook1821
click1846
clipper1849
ice hook1853
witchetty1862
slip-hook1863
snap-hook1875
clip-hook1882
pelican1890
snake hook1944
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 80 Cley[k]staffe, cambuca.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

cleekv.

Brit. /kliːk/, U.S. /klik/
Forms: Middle English–1500s cleke, 1500s cleake, 1500s– cleik, 1600s– cleek. past tense Middle English– claucht, claught; also Scottish cleikit.
Etymology: A northern form corresponding to southern cleach v., Middle English clechen : compare cleek n.
northern dialect.
1. transitive. To seize with the clutch or hand; to lay hold of, clutch, grasp, or seize, firmly, suddenly, or eagerly. Also to cleek hold (of).
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the world > movement > absence of movement > hold or holding > hold [verb (transitive)] > lay hold of or grasp > suddenly or forcibly
catcha1250
titc1330
beclapc1386
clutch1393
clitcha1400
cleekc1440
cletch1612
click1651
get1831
to seize hold of1839
c1440 York Myst. xxx. 240 An I cleke yowe, I schall felle yow.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) ii. l. 98 Be the coler claucht him with-outyn baid.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xi. xv. 89 Thai claucht and lappyt in thar armys This queyn.
1559 D. Lindsay Test. Papyngo l. 1169 in Wks. (1931) I The gled the pece claucht in his cluke.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Riv/2 Cleake, corripere.
a1640 T. Jackson Μαραν Αθα (1657) 3641 The proposal..makes souls so affected, cleek the faster hold.
1790 R. Burns Tam o' Shanter 217 in Poems & Songs (1968) II. 564 The carlin claught her by the rump, And left poor Maggie scarce a stump.
1814 W. Scott Waverley I. xviii. 278 Wanting to cleik the cunzie (that is, to hook the silver). View more context for this quotation
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian vi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 135 I made what haste I could to cleek the callant.
2.
a. To lay hold of and draw suddenly to oneself, as with a hook or crook: to snatch.
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the world > movement > absence of movement > hold or holding > hold or grip [verb (intransitive)] > lay hold > suddenly or forcibly
cleach?c1225
cleekc1380
clutch1865
c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. I. 300 Þei shal cleke to freris alle þe goodis þat þei mai geten.
?a1400 Morte Arth. 1164 That thus clekys this corsaunt owte of thir heghe clyffez.
1559 D. Lindsay Test. Papyngo l. 1046 in Wks. (1931) I Cleikand to thame skarlote and Crammosie.
a1605 A. Montgomerie Sonn. xxii, To Aduersars Lawyers 2 Suppose ȝe come to cleik auay my King.
b. To snatch, pluck, or pull, out, up, off.
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the world > movement > absence of movement > hold or holding > hold [verb (transitive)] > lay hold of or grasp > quickly or suddenly
cleeka1400
nipa1500
grab1589
snatch1590
snap1688
scrab1890
a1400–50 Alexander (Ashm.) 2937 With þat he clekis vp þe coupe [v.r. clyght vp a cupe].
?a1400 Morte Arth. 2123 He clekys owtte Collbrande fulle clenlyche burneschte.
c1400 Ywaine & Gaw. 2478 His sholder als ofgan he kleke.
1572 Lament Lady Scot. in J. G. Dalyell Scotish Poems 16th Cent. (1801) II. 244 Power to cleik up the benifices.
a1745 Jacobite Ballad, ‘Wee Wee German Lairdie’ And up his beggar duds he cleeks.
1855 E. Waugh Sketches Lancs. Life (1857) 30 Cleeked up like lumps o' gowd.
c. figurative. To snatch up, raise suddenly.
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a1586 Peblis to Play in W. A. Craigie Maitland Folio MS (1919) I. 177 He cleikit vp ane hie ruf sang.
3. To catch or lay hold of with a cleek.
ΚΠ
1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago III. 45 ‘The chance o' cleiking a fish’.

Derivatives

cleeked adj.
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1805 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. II. 369 Another walked behind the horses with a cleeked staff.
ˈcleeking adj.
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the world > movement > absence of movement > hold or holding > [adjective] > seizing or laying hold
cleeking1566
lay-holdinga1586
1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Dviijv I am molested very muche With fowles, and cleekynge theues.
ˈcleeky adj. and n. Scottish (a) adj. addicted to cleeking, grasping, captious; (b) n. a cleeked stick, a crooked staff.
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1810 A. Cunningham et al. Remains Nithsdale & Galloway Song 165 (Jam.) Ken ye whare cleekie Murray's gane?
1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 201 (Jam.) Frae that day to this my guid aik cleeky has never been mair heard tell o'.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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