"clewline" meaning in English

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        {
          "word": "buntline"
        }
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          "ref": "1863, Richard Henry Dana Jr, Captain Brown, Dana's Seaman's friend, page 24",
          "text": "If the halyards are not single, the yard must be sent down by a yard rope, like the topgallant yard. In some vessels, instead of making the sheets and clewlines fast to the jack, over-hand knots are taken in their ends, and they are let go.",
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        "Outermost of the ropes with which a square sail is rolled up to the yard"
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          "square sail",
          "square sail"
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          "yard",
          "yard"
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        "(sailing) Outermost of the ropes with which a square sail is rolled up to the yard"
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "outermost of the ropes with which a square sail is rolled up",
          "word": "supistin"
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          "sense": "outermost of the ropes with which a square sail is rolled up",
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        "clewlines and buntlines"
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  "word": "clewline"
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  "etymology_text": "clew + line",
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          "ref": "1863, Richard Henry Dana Jr, Captain Brown, Dana's Seaman's friend, page 24",
          "text": "If the halyards are not single, the yard must be sent down by a yard rope, like the topgallant yard. In some vessels, instead of making the sheets and clewlines fast to the jack, over-hand knots are taken in their ends, and they are let go.",
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        "Outermost of the ropes with which a square sail is rolled up to the yard"
      ],
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "outermost of the ropes with which a square sail is rolled up",
      "word": "supistin"
    },
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