clewing
- present participle of clew.
Example Sentences
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The smoke cleared away, and the schooner’s foretopsail, which she was in the act of clewing up, lay over side.
From The Pirate by Marryat, Frederick
No one seemed to think of clewing up the sails, and thereby lessening the impetuous surges of the unfortunate galliot.
From Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver by Mayer, Brantz
With great skill our pilot tried a "flying moor," letting our anchor go while we were forging ahead at a good rate, then immediately clewing up all sail.
From The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life by Bullen, Frank T.
The smoke cleared away, and the schooner's foretopsail, which she was in the act of clewing up, lay over her side.
From The Pirate, and The Three Cutters by Sullivan, Edmund J. (Edmund Joseph)
In close reefing the main-topsail, there was much difficulty in clewing up the sail for the purpose of making it quiet, and the captain issued his orders accordingly from the quarter-deck, and sent us aloft.
From The Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth by Osler, Edward
