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At length he is cleeked in earnest, and hauled to shore; he proves one of the grey-skull newly run, and weighs somewhat above twenty pounds.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various
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More ladders, tied safely together, were hoisted to riggings of buildings and held in place by ropes conveniently cleeked round chimneys.
Patsy 1887
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7 'O whare was you gotten, and whare was ye cleeked?
Bonny Birdie 1898
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At length John Halliburton, who was then my fisherman, waded into the river up to his middle, and cleeked him whilst he was hanging in the stream, and before he was half beat. "
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various
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