Example Sentences
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He clewed Wilson's pennant to his editorial page of Harper's Weekly and saluted it each week with all the ardor of a discoverer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every sail was clewed up, while the anchors were weighed to prevent our thumping on them.
From Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver by Mayer, Brantz
Ay! many a craft we left abaft Upon that haunted sea; But never a hulk that clewed a sail, Or waved a hand, or answered hail, And never a man saw we.
From Weeds by the Wall Verses by Cawein, Madison Julius
Now take your grog, men; and when you have clewed up and furled the foresail, go below.
From Dick Leslie's Luck A Story of Shipwreck and Adventure by Piffard, Harold
When the oars were in use, these sails were clewed up.
From The Story of Malta by Ballou, Maturin Murray
