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Princeton's WordNet

  1. clewnoun

    a ball of yarn or cord or thread

  2. clue, clew, cueverb

    evidence that helps to solve a problem

  3. clue, clewverb

    roll into a ball

Wiktionary

  1. clewnoun

    A roughly spherical mass or body.

  2. clewnoun

    A ball of thread or yarn.

  3. clewnoun

    Yarn or thread as used to guide one's way through a maze or labyrinth; a guide, a clue.

  4. clewnoun

    The lower corner(s) of a sail to which a sheet is attached for trimming the sail (adjusting its position relative to the wind); the metal loop or cringle in the corner of the sail, to which the sheet is attached. On a triangular sail, the clew is the trailing corner relative to the wind direction.

  5. clewnoun

    The sheets so attached to a sail.

  6. clewnoun

    The cords suspending a hammock.

  7. clewverb

    to roll into a ball

  8. clewverb

    (transitive and intransitive) to raise the lower corner(s) of (a sail)

  9. Etymology: clewe from cleowen, cliewen, cliwen, from kliuwinan, from glew-. Akin to clæg.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. CLEWnoun

    Etymology: clywe, Sax. klouwen, Dutch.

    Eftsoons untwisting his deceitful clew;
    He ’gan to weave a web of wicked guile. Edmund Spenser, Fairy Queen.

    While guided by some clew of heav’nly thread,
    The perplex’d labyrinth we backward tread. Wentworth Dillon.

    They see small clews draw vastest weights along,
    Not in their bulk but in their order strong. Dryden.

    This alphabet must be your own clew to guide you. William Holder.

    Is there no way, no thought, no beam of light?
    No clew to guide me thro’ this gloomy maze,
    To clear my honour, yet preserve my faith? Smith.

    The reader knows not how to transport his thoughts over to the next particular, for want of some clew, or connecting idea, to lay hold of. Isaac Watts, Logick, p. iv. c. 2.

  2. To Clewverb

    a sea-term. To Clew the Sails, is to raise them, in order to be furled, which is done by a rope fastened to the clew of a sail, called the clew-garnet. John Harris

    Etymology: from clew,

Wikipedia

  1. clew

    The Yakima Fold Belt of south-central Washington, also called the Yakima fold-and-thrust belt, is an area of topographical folds (or wrinkles) raised by tectonic compression. It is a 14,000 km2 (5,400 sq mi) structural-tectonic sub province of the western Columbia Plateau Province resulting from complex and poorly understood regional tectonics. The folds are associated with geological faults whose seismic risk is of particular concern to the nuclear facilities at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation (immediately northwest of the Tri-Cities) and major dams on the Columbia and Snake Rivers.

ChatGPT

  1. clew

    A clew is a ball of thread, yarn, or cord. It can also refer to a guiding piece of information or a clue, in a mystery or puzzle. In the context of sailing, a clew is one of the lower corners of a square sail or the aft corner of a fore-and-aft four-sided sail.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Clewnoun

    alt. of Clue

  2. Clewnoun

    to direct; to guide, as by a thread

  3. Clewnoun

    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

  4. Etymology: [Cf. D. kluwenen. See Clew, n.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Clew

    Clue, klōō, n. a ball of thread, or the thread in it: a thread that guides through a labyrinth: anything that solves a mystery: the corner of a sail.—v.t. to coil up into a clew or ball: to truss or tie up sails to the yards.—n. Clew′-gar′net (naut.), a tackle for clewing up the smaller square sails for furling.—n.pl. Clew′-lines, ropes on the smaller square sails by which they are clewed up for furling. [A.S. cliwen; cf. Dut. kluwen; Ger. knäuel.]

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  1. Clew

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Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. clew

    Of a hammock or cot. (See CLUE.)

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Clew in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Clew in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

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