Word Finder - clew

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A roughly spherical mass or body.

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A ball of thread or yarn.

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

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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.

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(in the plural) The sheets so attached to a sail.

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(in the plural) The cords suspending a hammock.

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To roll into a ball

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

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A strand of yarn etc. as used to guide one through a labyrinth; something which points the way, a guide.

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Information which may lead one to a certain point or conclusion.

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An object or a kind of indication which may be used as evidence.

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Insight or understanding ("to have a clue [about]" or "to have clue". See have a clue, clue stick)

A nylon cleat is fitted near the inboard end to make off the clew outhaul.

A short rope strop with a block running on it was made fast to each clew.

The principal inlets are Killary Harbour between Mayo and Galway; Clew Bay, in which are the harbours of Westport and Newport; Blacksod Bay and Broad Haven, which form the peninsula of the Mullet; and Killala Bay between Mayo and Sligo.

The islands are very numerous, the principal being Inishturk, near Killary Harbour; Clare Island, at the mouth of Clew Bay, where there are many islets, all formed of drift; and Achill, the largest island off Ireland.

The next highest summits are Nephin (2646 ft.), to the west of Lough Conn, and Croagh Patrick (2510 ft.), to the south of Clew Bay.

Nephin Beg, Nephin and Croagh Patrick are typical quartzite summits, the last named belonging possibly to a Silurian horizon but rising from a metamorphosed area on the south side of Clew Bay.

Clew Bay, with its islets capped by glacial drift, is a submerged part of a synclinal of Carboniferous strata, and Old Red Sandstone comes out on the north side of this, from near Achill to Lough Conn.

Ballaghaderreen, Claremorris (Clare), Crossmolina and Swineford are lesser market towns; and Newport and Westport are small seaports on Clew Bay.

Following the coast southward, Donegal Bay is divided from Galway Bay by the hammer-like projection of county Mayo and Connemara, the square inlet of Clew Bay intervening.

The labyrinth from which Theseus escaped by means of the clew of Ariadne, was built by Daedalus, a most skillful artificer.

Neither will the Gospels afford a clew; for these are the record of " days of heaven upon earth.