clew

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A roughly spherical mass or body.

   “If the whole troupe be diuided into many clewes, or round bunches, you need not then doubt but that there are many kings.”

2. isim A ball of thread or yarn.

   “[O]nely ſinne And helliſh obſtinacie tye thy tongue That truth ſhould be ſuſpected, ſpeake, iſ't ſo? If it be ſo, you haue wound a goodly clewe: If it be not, forſweare't how ere I charge thee, As heauen ſhall work in me for thine auaile To tell me truelie.”

3. isim Yarn or thread as used to guide one's way through a maze or labyrinth; a guide, a clue.
4. isim 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 trailing corner relative to the wind direction.

   “'Mid the rattle of blocks and the tramp of the crew, Hisses the rain of the rushing squall; The sails are aback from clew to clew, And now is the moment for "MAINSAIL, HAUL!"”

5. isim The sheets so attached to a sail.

   “The canvas running up in a proud sweep, Wind-wrinkled at the clews, and white like lint,”

6. isim The cords suspending a hammock.

   “He taught us how to attach the clews to the ends of the hammock and then lash it between jack stays.”

7. isim Archaic spelling of clue.

   “With this clew, let us endeavour to unravel this character of Herod as here given.”

8. fiil to roll into a ball
9. fiil to raise the lower corner(s) of (a sail)