| 单词 | cleek | 
| 释义 | cleekn. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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? ΚΠ a1605    A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart 301  				The cords and the cout-euill, the claisps and the cleiks. Compounds   cleek-staff,  cleek-shank, etc. ΘΚΠ 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. 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). ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 1805    R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. II. 369  				Another walked behind the horses with a cleeked staff.   ˈcleeking adj. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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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