Crossword clues for clewed
clewed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clew \Clew\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clewed p. pr. & vb. n. Clewing.] [Cf. D. kluwenen. See Clew, n.]
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To direct; to guide, as by a thread. [Obs.]
Direct and clew me out the way to happiness.
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(Naut.) To move of draw (a sail or yard) by means of the clew garnets, clew lines, etc.; esp. to draw up the clews of a square sail to the yard.
To clew down (Naut.), to force (a yard) down by hauling on the clew lines.
To clew up (Naut.), to draw (a sail) up to the yard, as for furling. [1913 Webster] ||
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: clew)
Usage examples of "clewed".
Before an hour had passed, the sails were clewed up and the Bounty dropped anchor in twenty fathoms, off a cove where it seemed that a boat might land and the steep green bluffs be scaled.
All the courses were clewed up, for these large sails were always a fire risk once the fighting started.
On the morning of the 17th, then, the sails were clewed up, and the Fram began to roll even worse than with the sails set.
We got the sail clewed up without its going to pieces, but it took us over an hour.
As she neared the wharf on Floor Seven of the House, all sail was rapidly clewed up and furled, for to miscalculate velocity and hit the fortress, even though it was well buttressed, would bring a disaster beyond imagining.
A minute later the two centre-column ships clewed up their courses again, clearly anxious not to find themselves ahead of the rest.
Should be - damn and blast, he'd never make it under just topsails, but it'd throw the ship – and himself, if he was honest - into confusion if he set the forecourse now, and then tried to get it clewed up as he turned alongside the Peacock.
In the centre of the channel, with all but her topsails and jib clewed up, his ship, his old Hyperion was entering harbour.