English-Thai Dictionary

clew

VT ขด เป็น กลุ่ม ด้าย 

 

clew down

PHRV ลด ใบ เรือ ลง  clue down lod-bai-ruea-long

 

clew up

PHRV ยก ใบ เรือ ขึ้น  clue up yok-bai-ruea-kuen

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CLEW

n. 1. A ball of thread.
2. The thread that forms a ball; the thread that is used to guide a person in a labyrinth. Hence, any thing that guides or directs one in an intricate case.
3. The lower corner of a square sail, and the aftmost corner of a stay sail.

 

CLEW

v.t. 1. In seamanship, to truss up to the yard, by means of clew-garnets or clew-lines, in order to furling.
2. To direct.

 

CLEW-CARNETS

n.In marine language, a sort of tackle, or rope and pulley, fastened to the clews of the main and foresails to truss them up to the yard.

 

CLEW-LINES

n.These are the same tackle, and used for the like purpose as clew-garnets, but are applied to the smaller square sails, as the top-sail, top-gallant and sprit-sails.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CLEW; CLUE

Clew, Clue, n. Etym: [OE. clewe, clowe, clue, AS. cleowen, cliwen,clywe ball of thread; akin to D. kluwen, OHG. chliwa, chliuwa, G. dim. kleuel, knäuel, and perch. to L. gluma hull, husk, Skr. glaus sort of ball or tumor. Perch. akin to E. claw. *26. Cf. Knawel. ]

 

1. A ball of thread, yarn, or cord; also, The thread itself. Untwisting his deceitful clew. Spenser.

 

2. 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. The clew, without which it was perilous to enter the vast and intricate maze of countinental politics, was in his hands. Macaulay.

 

3. (Naut. ) (a.)

 

Defn: A lower corner of a square sail, or the after corner of a fore- and-aft sail. (b.)

 

Defn: A loop and thimbles at the corner of a sail. (c.)

 

Defn: A combination of lines or nettles by which a hammock is suspended. Clew garnet (Naut. ), one of the ropes by which the clews of the courses of square-rigged vessels are drawn up to the lower yards. -- Clew line (Naut. ), a rope by which a clew of one of the smaller square sails, as topsail, topgallant sail, or royal, is run up to its yard. -- Clew-line block (Naut. ), The block through which a clew line reeves. See Illust. of Block.

 

CLEW

Clew, v. t. [imp. & p. p. & vb. n. Clewing.] Etym: [Cf. D. kluwenen.See Clew, n.]

 

1. To direct; to guide, as by a thread. [Obs. ] Direct and clew me out the way to happiness. Beau. && Fl.

 

2. (Naut. )

 

Defn: 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. To clew down (Naut. ), to force (a yard ) down by hauling on the clew lines. -- To clew up (Naut. ), to draw (a sail ) up to the yard, as for furling.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

clew

clew |klo͞o klu | ▶noun 1 Sailing the lower or after corner of a sail. 2 (clews ) the cords by which a hammock is suspended. • (clew ) a ball of thread (used esp. with reference to the thread supposedly used by Theseus to mark his way out of the Cretan labyrinth ). 3 archaic variant of clue. ▶verb [ with obj. ] (clew a sail up ) haul up the clews of a sail to the yard or into the mast ready for furling. • (clew a sail down ) lower an upper square sail by hauling down on the clew lines while slacking away on the halyard. ORIGIN Old English cliwen, cleowen (denoting a rounded mass, also a ball of thread ), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kluwen. All senses are also recorded for the form clue .

 

Oxford Dictionary

clew

clew |kluː | ▶noun 1 the lower or after corner of a sail. 2 (clews ) Sailing the cords by which a hammock is suspended. 3 archaic a ball of thread. 4 archaic variant of clue. ▶verb [ with obj. ] (clew a sail up (or down )) Sailing raise (or lower ) a square sail by the clews when furling (or unfurling ). ORIGIN Old English cliwen, cleowen (denoting a rounded mass, also a ball of thread ), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kluwen. All senses are also recorded for the form clue .

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

clew

clew /kluː /名詞 C 糸の玉, 手がかり ; 〘海 〙帆耳 (の輪 ).動詞 他動詞 …を巻いて玉にする, 糸玉にする .