Their boat's sail tore near the clew.
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Clew
/kluː/
Synonyms for "clew" (28 found)
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11 entriesCollocations
10 entriesaft clewball of threadclew knotclew lineclew of a sailclew ropefollow the clewlower clewsail clewyard clew
Inflections
3 entriesTranslations
1 translations across 1 languages.
Finnish
1 entries- skuutti noun (nautical: sheet attached to this sail corner)
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.
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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.
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