clew up
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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Immediately afterward, with her crew standing by to clew up the foretopsails, the backstays part and the We're Here's mainmast goes overside, carrying with it Manuel in a tangle of canvas, cable and running gear.
From Time Magazine Archive
Royal and topgallant halliards and sheets let go; clew up and furl!
From A Middy of the King A Romance of the Old British Navy by Edward S. Hodgson
Haul down and clew up, fore and aft; in with everything.
From The Rover's Secret A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba by W. Christian Symons
Raise main tack and sheet; man the main clew-garnets, buntlines, and leech-lines; clew up cheerily, lads!
From A Middy of the King A Romance of the Old British Navy by Edward S. Hodgson
“Away aloft, men; clew up and haul down; furl everything!”
From Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War by Harry Collingwood
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