clew in English

noun
1
the lower or after corner of a sail.
I started to give the outhaul a good yank to get the foot of the main tight and the damned thing came off in my hand along with a piece of the sail containing the clew .
2
the cords by which a hammock is suspended.
Tie the clew down to the boom using a reef knot.
verb
1
haul up the clews of a sail to the yard or into the mast ready for furling.
It is mostly the way to man the clew-lines and the bunt-lines, ease off the lee-sheet and clew it up .
noun
verb

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1. Dogs, It'seems, love to clew up money!

2. According to clew, until pay treasure attestation the success.

3. Give you more clew, this is science fiction.

4. The captain asked the sailors to clew down.

5. That is to say, he " found a clew. "

6. The captain asked the sailors to clew up.

7. Clew the down, the wind is too strong.

8. The wind is too strong; Don't clew up!

9. We are adopted following two clew will discuss allocate theory.

10. The captain asked the sailors to clew ( the sails ) up.

11. Clew the three sails up, we need to go faster.

12. The captain ordered the sailors to clew ( the sails ) down.

13. The policeman found a clew to the burglary committed last week.

14. Especially about a few kinds when central clew states representative opinion gave objective, compendious review.

15. Clew is pestered each other, main threads affair is found in time very hard also.

16. 7 Especially about a few kinds when central clew states representative opinion gave objective, compendious review.

17. The analysis process and application clew are introduced primarily, a circuit example is analyzed to illuminate the sneak circuit analysis technology.

18. [Variant of clew (from Theseus's use of a ball of thread as a guide through the Cretan labyrinth).] Clue 2 (klo͞o

19. The last, the system also influence the narrative clew, which made Yuan-zaju basically lonely narration, and can't form crewel or more line narration.

20. Clew: After enabling this strategy to install, the user will not undertake installing to Acquiescent homepage, so if need, the user must appoint an Acquiescent

21. Clew: Before use floppy disk guides the computer must floppy disk write protection to shut, bring about virus to infect floppy disk likely otherwise.

22. To get in the Backwinded position, visualize the mast as a wedge that slices thru the wind then push on the clew to get Backwinded

23. Clue (n.) "anything that guides or directs in an intricate case," 1590s, a special use of a revised spelling of clew "a ball of thread or yarn" (q.v.)

24. 564 JAMES VAN CLEW Apriorism often calls forth the following objection: “Induction is justified only to the extent that the regularities we have noted in the past will continue to hold in the future

25. To sunset, from the stern staff (when under way or occupied), or onboard sailboats—on Aftermost sail 2/3 length of the leach above the clew; onboard sportfisherman—on halyard just behind the tuna tower.

26. Clew, a part of a sail; Clews (surname) Clews Competition Motorcycles, a British motorcycle manufacturer; Climate, Land, Energy and Water Strategies (or Systems), developed for the Rio+20 conference and now assisting the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) process; See also

27. Clue Clue trademark the US name for the game Cluedo Origin Clue 1 (1500-1600) clew “ ball of string ” ((11-19 centuries)), from Old English cliewen; from the use of a ball of string for finding the way out of a network of passages

28. The word Clue was originally a variant spelling of clew, meaning “ball of thread or yarn.” Our modern sense of Clue, “guide to the solution of a mystery,” grows out of a motif in myth and folklore, the ball of thread that helps in finding one’s way out of a maze

29. Moves list Pasko, Backwinded to Backwinded Ankle Biter, Spock into Matador, Shifty, Front Upwind Ankle Biter, Lightwind Waterstart, Chachoo Throw, Forward into Shaka, Shove It Forward, Reverse Waterstart ashore, Advanced Tack (SUP Tack), Windsurfing position, Quickstart, Steering downwind, Steering (upwind), Simple Tack (Mast Tack), Flipping the sail over the nose, Waterstart, Clew is …

30. I step back on the board and try again: this time, I do release my hand “all the way” by opening my palm and moving it away from the boom, and the Backwinded sail effortlessly swings around in the fresh breeze as I step back into a perfect clew-first stance: my first successful lee-side escape! A few more tries and I got the heli-tack nailed.