CLEWS

Meaning of CLEWS in English

Nautical the cords by which a hammock is suspended.

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PARSONS, ELSIE CLEWS — orig. Elsie Worthington Clews born Nov. 27, 1875, New York, N.Y., U.S. died Dec. 19, 1941, New York City U.S. …
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PARSONS, ELSIE CLEWS
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PARSONS, ELSIE CLEWS — orig. Elsie Worthington Clews born Nov. 27, 1875, New York, N.Y., U.S. died Dec. 19, 1941, New York City U.S. …
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PARSONS — [c mediumvioletred] (as used in expressions) Burkitt Denis Parsons Parsons Elsie Clews Parsons Sir Charles Algernon Parsons Talcott Rosse William …
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ELSIE — [c mediumvioletred] (as used in expressions) de Wolfe Elsie Franklin Rosalind Elsie Parsons Elsie Clews Elsie Worthington Clews
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NETTLE — I. ˈned. ə l, -et ə l noun ( -s ) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English nettle, netle, from …
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CLEW — I. noun or clue ˈklü ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English clewe, from Old English cliewen; akin to Old High …
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STRETCHER — ˈstrechə(r) noun ( -s ) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English strecher, from strechen to stretch + -er — more …
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SPECTACLE CLEW — noun or spectacle iron : a steel device consisting of three rings at the clews of square sails into which …
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HAMMOCK BATTEN — noun 1. : one of the battens on a ship's beam from which a hammock is slung 2. : a …
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CLEW GARNET — noun : one of the ropes by which the clews of the courses of square-rigged ships are hauled up to …
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HAMMOCK — (n.) A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet wide, suspended by clews or …
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GOOSEWING — (n.) One of the clews or lower corners of a course or a topsail when the middle part or the …
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CLEW — (n.) To move of draw (a sail or yard) by means of the clew garnets, clew lines, etc.; esp. to …
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HAMMOCK — ( n. ) A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet wide, suspended by …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
GOOSEWING — ( n. ) One of the clews or lower corners of a course or a topsail when the middle part …
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CLEW — ( n. ) To move of draw (a sail or yard) by means of the clew garnets, clew lines, etc.; …
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WHISKER — — whiskery , adj. /hwis"keuhr, wis"-/ , n. 1. whiskers , a beard. 2. Usually, whiskers . See side whiskers …
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SHEET — sheet 1 — sheetless , adj. — sheetlike , adj. /sheet/ , n. 1. a large rectangular piece of cotton, …
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FOREYARD — /fawr"yahrd', fohr"-/ , n. 1. a yard on the lower mast of a square-rigged foremast of a ship used to …
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CLEW — /klooh/ , n. 1. clue (def. 1). 2. Naut. either lower corner of a square sail or the after lower …
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CLEW — I. ˈklü noun Etymology: Middle English clewe, from Old English cliewen; akin to Old High German kliuwa ball, Sanskrit glauḥ …
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HAMMOCK — noun a piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines. used also adjectively; as, hammock land. …
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GOOSEWING — noun one of the clews or lower corners of a course or a topsail when the middle part or the …
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CLEW — noun ·alt. of clue. 2. clew ·noun to direct; to guide, as by a thread. 3. clew ·noun to move …
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CLEW A SAIL UP/DOWN — draw a sail up or let it down by the clews when furling or unfurling. → clew
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CLEW — [clew] n [ME clewe, fr. OE cliewen; akin to OHG kliuwa ball, Skt glau lump] (bef. 12c) 1: a ball …
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SOUTHWEST INDIAN — Distribution of Southwest Indians and their reservations and lands. member of any of the aboriginal North American peoples inhabiting the …
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BENEDICT, RUTH — born June 5, 1887, New York, N.Y., U.S. died Sept. 17, 1948, New York City ne Ruth Fulton American anthropologist …
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ELSIE — n. de Wolfe Elsie Franklin Rosalind Elsie Parsons Elsie Clews Elsie Worthington Clews
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