cleekとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /kliːk/
• 韻: -iːk
• Homophone: clique

名詞

cleek (plural cleeks)

1. (chiefly Scotland) A large hook.
2. (golf, dated) 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.
   • 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not... (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 58:

     He had begun at four, playing with a miniature cleek and a found shilling ball over the municipal links.

派生語

動詞

cleek (third-person singular simple present cleeks, present participle cleeking, simple past and past participle cleeked)

1. (golf, dated, transitive) To strike with the club called a cleek.
   • 1914, Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey, Lady Cassandra, page 71:

     […] 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.

アナグラム

• eckle, Eckel, Kelce