Their boat's sail tore near the clew.
Source: tatoeba (6900151)
Clew
//kluː//
Synonyms for "clew" (16 found)
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39 translations across 23 languages.
Belarusian
1 entries- клубо́к noun (ball of thread)
Bulgarian
2 entries- кълбо noun (roughly spherical mass or body)
- кълбо noun (ball of thread)
Czech
1 entries- smotek noun (ball of thread)
Danish
1 entries- nøgle noun (ball of thread)
Dutch
1 entries- kluwen noun (ball of thread)
Finnish
4 entries- johtolanka noun (yarn used to guide one's way through a maze, clue)
- kerä noun (roughly spherical mass or body)
- kerä noun (ball of thread)
- kiinnitysnarut noun (nautical: cords suspending a hammock)
French
1 entries- pelote noun (ball of thread)
German
1 entries- Knäuel noun (ball of thread)
Greek
1 entries- μίτος noun (ball of thread)
Hungarian
1 entries- gombolyag noun (ball of thread)
Irish
2 entries- ceirtlín noun (roughly spherical mass or body)
- ceirtlín noun (ball of thread)
Italian
2 entries- bugna noun (nautical: sail corner)
- gomitolo noun (ball of thread)
Korean
2 entries- 꾸러미 noun (ball of thread)
- 꾸리 noun (ball of thread)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- ariadnetråd noun (yarn used to guide one's way through a maze, clue)
- ledetråd noun (yarn used to guide one's way through a maze, clue)
- nøste noun (ball of thread)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- دامن noun (nautical: sail corner)
- یوماق noun (ball of thread)
Punjabi
1 entries- ਪਿੰਨਾ noun (ball of thread)
Romanian
1 entries- ghem noun (ball of thread)
Russian
3 entries- клубо́к noun (ball of thread)
- мото́к noun (ball of thread)
- шко́товый у́гол па́руса noun (nautical: sail corner)
Spanish
1 entries- ovillo noun (ball of thread)
Swedish
1 entries- nystan noun (ball of thread)
Turkish
1 entries- yumak noun (ball of thread)
Ukrainian
1 entries- клубо́к noun (ball of thread)
Welsh
1 entries- pellen noun (ball of thread)
Sample sentences
25 total sentences available.
I now asked myself—still in connection with my son-in-law’s extravagant expenditure—whether the clew to the mystery might not haply be the forging of bank-notes on the other side of the baize door.
Source: tatoeba (11860480)
If the whole troupe be diuided into many clewes, or round bunches, you need not then doubt but that there are many kings.
Source: wiktionary
Both theſe creatures [the "ai" (aye-aye?) and "unan"], by forming themſelves in a clew, have often more the appearance of excreſcences in the bark, than that of animals.
Source: wiktionary
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