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What are clews?

What are clews? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. plural of clew
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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.
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.
High overhead, topmen scrambled to furl and unfurl sails and tend to yards and booms and spars and various clews.
Almost the only clews that we get at are to be found in the colloquies.
Clews kicked off the format quietly with Educating Essex in 2011, at Passmores Academy in Harlow, which won him a Bafta.
Both clews are made up entirely of volunteers, said the ship's highest-ranking enlisted man, Senior Chief Petty Officer Lawrence Naumann.

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