Definition of Cleck

1. to hatch [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: hatch

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cleck

cleavage site
cleavage spindle
cleavages
cleave
cleaved
cleaved cell
cleavelandite
cleavelandites
cleaver
cleavers
cleaves
cleaveth
cleaving
cleche
clechy
cleck (current term)
clecked
clecking
clecks
cledge
cledgy
cledonomancy
cleek
cleeked
cleeking
cleekit
cleeks
cleep
cleeped
cleeping

Literary usage of Cleck

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Northumberland Words by Richard Oliver Heslop, Oliver Heslop (1892)
"cleck, a hook. " Hing yor coat on tha.t cleck. ... Will potato seed cleck the first year ?" Will it produce tubers the year in which it is sown ? ..."

2. Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century.: Consisting by John Nichols (1817)
"He died at Bierley, the 21st of April 1/41; and was buried at cleck-Heaton chapel, where an elegant monument erected to his memory by his second son, ..."

3. Journal of the Senate of the ... General Assembly of the State of Iowa by Iowa General Assembly. Senate (1858)
"Moved that the Senate adjourn till to-morrow morning at 9$ o'clock, Which motion was lost. Mr. Rankin Moved the Senate adjourn till 9 o'cleck to-morrow, ..."

4. The Civil Code of Lower Canada: Together with a Synopsis of Changes in the by McCord, Thomas, 1828-1886, Thomas McCord, Québec (Province) (1870)
"... Jays and holidays excepted, from nine o'cleck in the morning until ... o'cleck in the afternoon.—Ib. s. 107. [III. ..."

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