clewed in English

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 .
verb

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1. Wide of beam, stout of mast, short-Bowspritted, her boom clewed up to clear her deck load of rough stone; drawing ten feet aft and nine feet for’ard; a twelve-horse hoisting engine and boiler in her forecastle; at the tiller a wabbly-jointed, halibut-shaped, moon-faced (partially eclipsed, owing to …

2. Wide of beam, stout of mast, short-Bowspritted, her boom clewed up to clear her deck load of rough stone; drawing ten feet aft and nine feet for’ard; a twelve-horse hoisting engine and boiler in her forecastle; at the tiller a wabbly-jointed, halibut-shaped, moon-faced (partially eclipsed, owing to a fringe of dark whiskers), sleepy-eyed skipper named Baxter,–such