'Mid the rattle of blocks and the tramp of the crew, On a triangular sail, the clew is the trailing corner relative to the wind direction. (nautical) 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.Not often did Jesse James leave a clew to his identity when he galloped away from a crime of violence, back into the mysterious Nowhere whence he came. * 1926, Robertus Love, The Rise and Fall of Jesse James, University of Nebraska, 1990:.They had followed immediately behind him, thinking it barely possible that his actions might prove a clew to my whereabouts. We may here have lighted on the clew to the great puzzle. * 1870, , History of the Norman Conquest :.To this horrible mystery there is not as yet, we believe, the slightest clew. * 1841, , The Murders in the Rue Morgue :.With this clew, let us endeavour to unravel this character of Herod as here given. That, by a clewe of twyne, as he hath goon,įolwing alwey the threed, as he hath come. Yarn or thread as used to guide one's way through a maze or labyrinth a guide, a clue.On one side of her lay a pair of carpet slippers and on the other a ball of red wool, the leading filament of which she would tug at every now and then with the immemorial elbow jerk of a Zemblan knitter to give a turn to her yarn clew and slacken the thread. The Fairy Paribanou was at that time very hard at work, and, as she had several clews ' of thread by her, she took up one, and, presenting it to Prince Ahmed, said: "First take this ' clew of thread. If it be not, for?wear't: howe'er, I charge thee, Ī rare, precious, and never interrupted race of philosophers to whom wisdom, like another Ariadne, seems to have given a clew of thread which they have been walking along unwinding since the beginning of the world, through the labyrinth of human affairs.
If it be ?o, you have wound a goodly clew : 1604-5, , All's Well That Ends Well, Act 1, Scene 3: * 1796, , The Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam :īoth these creatures, by forming themselves in a clew, have often more the appearance of excrescences in the bark, than that of animals.If the whole troupe be diuided into many clewes, or round bunches, you need not then doubt but that there are many kings. Richard Surflet, Maison Rustique, or, The Countrie Farme : (obsolete) A roughly spherical mass or body.
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