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cleek

/kleek/US // klik //UK // (kliːk) //

洁癖,洁具,清理,洁洁

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Chiefly Scot. a large hook, especially one fixed to the inside walls of a house to hold clothing, pots, or food.
    • : Golf: Older Use. a club with an iron head, a narrow face, and little slope, used for shots from a poor lie on the fairway and sometimes for putting.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    claught or cleeked or claucht, cleeked, cleek·ing.

    • : Chiefly Scot. to grasp or seize suddenly and eagerly; snatch.

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Examples

  • A long cleek laid his ball off the green, a good approach stopped a little short of the hole, and the put went down.

  • A drive with a wooden club is almost sure to carry into the swamp, and only a careful cleek shot is safe.

  • Booverman sighted the hole, and then took his stance; but the cleek in his hand shook like an aspen.

  • No, but Cleek of what do you call your quarters—eh—ah—Scot-land Yard—eh—yes, he might!

  • If there were geraniums and fuchsias much would depend upon it, Cleek had murmured.