Citations:cleeker

English citations of cleeker

1894, Alexander H. Japp, quoting Mr. D. D. Dixon of Rothbury, “A Northumbrian Valley”, in Sylvanus Urban, editor, The Gentleman's Magazine‎^[1], volume 276, Bradbury, Evans, page 286:
Here is another of Mr. Dixon's illustrative and characteristic anecdotes: “One November night, some years ago, the most expert salmon cleeker amongst our Rothbury poachers was fishing alone with a cleek and gaff at the Thrum.
2008, “An Insight Into the Fisheries throughout the Committee's District”, in ec.europa.eu‎^[2], archived from the original on 2020-09-26, page 2:
When officers carry out shore patrols, random checks are made throughout the district inspecting catches from full and part-time fishermen, anglers, cleekers and divers, in fact any persons who catch and land any type of sea fish or shellfish.
2018, “Quarterly report ending 30 June 2017”, in Northumberland Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority‎^[3], archived from the original on 2021-12-31, page 1:
Cleekers and Shore Gatherers are starting to be also seen throughout the Authority’s District and regular checks are being made.
2019, “Annual Plan 2019–2020”, in Northumberland Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority‎^[4], archived from the original on 2022-01-07:
recreational and other sea users in the district including cleekers, yachtsmen and sea anglers

1840, William Bannerman, The Aberdeen Worthies: Or, Sketches of Characters Resident in Aberdeen During the End of the Last and Beginning of the Present Century‎^[5], L. Smith and S. Maclean, page 121:
The cleeker lodged his prisoners in one of the low vaults of the old Workhouse, until his Honour the Bailie or the Fiscal had leisure to go into the case.
1998, Robert Smith, The Granite City: A History of Aberdeen‎^[6], John Donald, →ISBN, page 8, likely paraphrasing the above (although an independent use exists in this book):
If they were unable to find a place in Sinclair's Close they usually ended up in the hands of an official known as the cleeker, who threw them in the workhouse until the bailie could hear their case and throw them out of the town.