clew-garnet

English

Noun

clew-garnet (plural clew-garnets)

1. (nautical) A rope attaching to the clew (lower corner) of a sail, used to furl it.

Quotations

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See also

• The novelist Thornton Jenkins Hains, who often wrote about sailing, sometimes used the pen name Mayn Clew Garnett.