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
  • For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:clew-garnet.

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