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- Practice the English pronunciation of clew with real speech in context.
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- (obsolete) A roughly spherical mass or body.
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Meaning
- [Noun]
- (obsolete) A roughly spherical mass or body.
- (archaic) A ball of thread or yarn.
- Yarn or thread as used to guide one's way through a maze or labyrinth; a guide, a clue.
- (nautical) 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.
- (in the plural) The sheets so attached to a sail.
- (nautical, in the plural) The cords suspending a hammock.
- Obsolete spelling of clue.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) to roll into a ball
- (nautical, transitive, intransitive) to raise the lower corner(s) of (a sail)
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