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n. A ball of yarn or thread.

n. Greek Mythology The ball of thread used by Theseus to find his way out of the labyrinth.

n. The cords by which a hammock is suspended.

n. Nautical One of the two lower corners of a square sail.

n. Nautical The lower aft corner of a fore-and-aft sail.

n. Nautical A metal loop attached to the lower corner of a sail.

v. To roll or coil into a ball.

v. Nautical To raise the lower corners of (a square sail) by means of clew lines. Used with up.

n. Chiefly British Variant of clue1.

n. A roughly spherical mass or body.

n. A ball of thread or yarn.

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

n. 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 clew is the trailing corner relative to the wind direction.

n. The sheets so attached to a sail.

n. The cords suspending a hammock.

n. Archaic form of clue.

v. to roll into a ball

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

n. A ball of thread, yarn, or cord; also, The thread itself.

n. That which guides or directs one in anything of a doubtful or intricate nature; that which gives a hint in the solution of a mystery.

n.

n. A lower corner of a square sail, or the after corner of a fore-and-aft sail.

n. A loop and thimbles at the corner of a sail.

n. A combination of lines or nettles by which a hammock is suspended.

v. To direct; to guide, as by a thread.

v. To move of draw (a sail or yard) by means of the clew garnets, clew lines, etc.; esp. to draw up the clews of a square sail to the yard.

See clue.

n. a ball of yarn or cord or thread

v. roll into a ball

n. evidence that helps to solve a problem

"Red Cow never saw Marcus O'Brien again, and though many conjectures were entertained, no certain clew was ever gained to dispel the mystery of his passing."

clue   

clewed    clewing    clews   

lump    ball    chunk    clod    clump    glob    wind    wrap    roll    twine   

clew-garnet    clef    clue   

clewed    clewing   

direct    ball    guide    corner   

unloose    clue    samite