cleek
/kliːk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.31 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
Dated
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, cleaca, *klukā