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Cleek   Listen
verb
Cleek  v. t.  (past claught; past part. cleeked; pres. part. cleeking)  (Scot & Dial. Eng.)
1.
To seize; clutch; snatch; catch; pluck.
2.
To catch or draw out with a cleek, as a fish; to hook.
3.
To hook or link (together); hence, to marry.





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"Cleek" Quotes from Famous Books



... a raucle carlin, [next, rough beldam] Wha kent fu' weel to cleek the sterling. [steal, cash] For mony a pursie she had hookit, An' had in mony a well been dookit; [ducked] Her love had been a Highland laddie, But weary fa' the waefu' Woodie! [woe betide, gallows] Wi' sighs and sobs, she thus began To ...
— Robert Burns - How To Know Him • William Allan Neilson


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