See clew on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1831, Victor Hugo, translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood, The Hunchback of Notre Dame:",
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"ref": "1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1858, Walter Mitchell, Tacking Ship Off Shore:",
"text": "'Mid the rattle of blocks and the tramp of the crew,\nHisses the rain of the rushing squall;\nThe sails are aback from clew to clew,\nAnd now is the moment for \"MAINSAIL, HAUL!\"",
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"ref": "1858, The Atlantic Monthly, \"The Language of the Sea\"",
"text": "\"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."
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"ref": "1894, James Hudson Taylor, A Retrospect:",
"text": "I went over and asked him to let down the clews or corners of the mainsail, which had been drawn up in order to lessen the useless flapping of the sail against the rigging.",
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"ref": "1901, John Conroy Hutcheson, The Ghost Ship:",
"text": "\"Run aft, Haldane, and you too, Spokeshave. Loosen the bunt of the mizzen-trysail and haul at the clew. That’ll bring her up to the wind fast enough, if the sail only stands it!\"",
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"ref": "1766, Laurence Sterne, The Sermons of Mr. Yorick:",
"text": "With this clew, let us endeavour to unravel this character of Herod as here given.",
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"ref": "1841 March, Edgar A[llan] Poe, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, in George R[ex] Graham, Rufus W[ilmot] Griswold, editors, Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine. […], volume XVIII, number 4, Philadelphia, Pa.: George R. Graham, published April 1841, →OCLC, page 169, column 2:",
"text": "To this horrible mystery there is not as yet, we believe, the slightest clew.",
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"ref": "1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James II, volume III,1856, New York: Harper & Brothers, page 13:",
"text": "The clew, without which it was perilous to enter the vast and intricate maze of Continental politics, was in his hands.",
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"ref": "1864, Andrew Forrester, The Female Detective:",
"text": "Now, the fact is, I had started because I thought I saw the end of a good clew.",
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"ref": "1870, Edward Augustus Freeman, History of the Norman Conquest:",
"text": "We may here have lighted on the clew to the great puzzle.",
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"ref": "1910, “Duck Eats Yeast,”, in The Yakima Herald:",
"text": "Telltale marks around the pan of yeast gave him a clew to the trouble.",
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"ref": "1912 February–July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Under the Moons of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as “A Fight that Won Friends”, in A Princess of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., 1917 October, →OCLC, page 59:",
"text": "They had followed immediately behind him, thinking it barely possible that his actions might prove a clew to my whereabouts, and had witnessed my short but decisive battle with him.",
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"ref": "1923, Robert Ervin Howard, Aha! or The Mystery of the Queen's Necklace:",
"text": "And I brought the only clew to be found.",
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"word": "꾸리"
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"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "kkureomi",
"sense": "ball of thread",
"word": "꾸러미"
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"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
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"sense": "ball of thread",
"word": "یوماق"
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"code": "pa",
"lang": "Punjabi",
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"sense": "ball of thread",
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"word": "ਪਿੰਨਾ"
},
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"sense": "ball of thread",
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},
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"code": "ru",
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"code": "sv",
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "ball of thread",
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "yarn used to guide one's way through a maze, clue",
"word": "johtolanka"
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"sense": "yarn used to guide one's way through a maze, clue",
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"word": "ariadnetråd"
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"code": "nb",
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"sense": "yarn used to guide one's way through a maze, clue",
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"word": "ledetråd"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "nautical: sail corner",
"word": "skuuttikulma"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "nautical: sail corner",
"word": "bugna"
},
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"code": "ota",
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"roman": "daman",
"sense": "nautical: sail corner",
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"word": "шко́товый у́гол па́руса"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "nautical: sheet attached to this sail corner",
"word": "skuutti"
},
{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "nautical: cords suspending a hammock",
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