cleek

Definitions

1. 1.Act of cleeking; a clutch. [Scot.]
2. 2.To seize; clutch; snatch; catch; pluck.
3. 3.To catch or draw out with a cleek, as a fish; to hook.
4. 4.To hook or link (together); hence, to marry. Scott.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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