Leave the head and the clews projecting slightly, and bind them together with a piece of light line. |
High overhead, topmen scrambled to furl and unfurl sails and tend to yards and booms and spars and various clews. |
Following up the clews indicated by the unnamed informer, the police found a regular arsenal of the deadly poisons and microbes in the home of a Paris engineer. |
At 2330, the vessel was hove to under the starboard clews of the lower topsails, waiting for the passing of the cold front. |
We had barely finished when the chief petty officer came up and examined the clews. |
Hullo is a rectangular shaped flat wooden plank seater with its four corners fixed to the roof by means of metal clews which can swing. |