clew

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  A roughly spherical mass or body.
 * 2) * c. 1600, Charles Estienne and Jean Liebault, tr. Richard Surflet, Maison Rustique, or, The Countrie Farme:
 * If the whole troupe be diuided into many clewes, or round bunches, you need not then doubt but that there are many kings.
 * 1)  A ball of thread or yarn.
 * 2) Yarn or thread as used to guide one's way through a maze or labyrinth; a guide, a clue.
 * 3)  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.  The trailing corner relative to the wind direction.
 * 4) * 1858, The Atlantic Monthly, "The Language of the Sea":
 * "Clew" is Saxon; "garnet" (from granato, a fruit) is Italian,—that is, the garnet- or pomegranate-shaped block fastened to the clew or corner of the courses, and hence the rope running through the block.
 * 1)  The sheets so attached to a sail.
 * 2)  The cords suspending a hammock.
 * 1)  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.  The trailing corner relative to the wind direction.
 * 2) * 1858, The Atlantic Monthly, "The Language of the Sea":
 * "Clew" is Saxon; "garnet" (from granato, a fruit) is Italian,—that is, the garnet- or pomegranate-shaped block fastened to the clew or corner of the courses, and hence the rope running through the block.
 * 1)  The sheets so attached to a sail.
 * 2)  The cords suspending a hammock.
 * 1)  The sheets so attached to a sail.
 * 2)  The cords suspending a hammock.
 * 1)  The cords suspending a hammock.
 * 1)  The cords suspending a hammock.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ;
 * Irish: ceirtlín


 * Belarusian: клубо́к
 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: ceirtlín
 * Korean:, 꾸러미
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: nøste
 * Punjabi: ਪਿੰਨਾ
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: клубо́к


 * Finnish: johtolanka
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ariadnetråd, ledetråd


 * Finnish: skuuttikulma
 * Italian:
 * Ottoman Turkish: دامن
 * Russian: шко́товый у́гол па́руса


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish: kiinnitysnarut

Verb

 * 1)  to roll into a ball
 * 2)  to raise the lower corner(s) of (a sail)