[kleek] 
noun, verb, claught or cleeked or claucht, cleeked, cleek⋅ing.| 1. | Chiefly Scot. a large hook, esp. one fixed to the inside walls of a house to hold clothing, pots, or food. |
| 2. | 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. |
| 3. | Chiefly Scot. to grasp or seize (something) suddenly and eagerly; snatch. |
| cleek (klēk) n.
[Middle English cleike, large hook, from cleken, to grasp, variant of clechen, from Old English *clǣcan; probably akin to clyccan, to clutch.] |