The breeze was light and visibility good, but the ship proceeded with only two brails of the mainsail clewed down from the yard because the captain believed Erdin was just over the horizon. Guided by this clew, it was easy to prove that the grammar and vocabulary of the 3000 Etruscan inscriptions were also Altaic.ĭescending to the midship deck, Cugel dropped the blue silk mainsail from its brails and sheeted home the clews. Just as you told me, it relates how the government agents, having tried in vain to get a clew to the smugglers, came to the conclusion that they must be using airships to slip contraband goods over the border at night.īefore an hour had passed, the sails were clewed up and the Bounty dropped anchor in twenty fathoms, off a cove where it seemed that a boat might land and the steep green bluffs be scaled.Ĭugel dropped the blue silk mainsail from its brails and sheeted home the clews.įor the benefit of those who know what a buntline on a sail is, I may remark that besides the usual topsail buntlines we had six extra buntlines round the whole sail, so that when it was clewed up it was, so to speak, made fast. Smaller square sails, as topsail, topgallant sail, orĬlew-line block (Naut.), The block through which a clew The courses of square-rigged vessels are drawn up to theĬlew line (Naut.), a rope by which a clew of one of the ) A combination of lines or nettles by which a hammockĬlew garnet (Naut.), one of the ropes by which the clews of ) A loop and thimbles at the corner of a sail. ) A lower corner of a square sail, or the after corner Vast and intricate maze of countinental politics, The clew, without which it was perilous to enter the

Or intricate nature that which gives a hint in the That which guides or directs one in anything of a doubtful

Knawel.]Ī ball of thread, yarn, or cord also, The thread itself. cleowen, cliwen, clywe ball of thread akin to D.

Clew garnet