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Use "clewing" in a sentence
"They have a strange habit, not observable among their congeners, of collecting in small troops, and rolling or "clewing" themselves up together."
"Ethelberta could see the men on board the yacht clewing up and making things snug in a way from which she inferred that they were not going to leave the harbour again that day."
"As a rule, though, it was only clewing up the sails that had to be done, as we always had to take soundings on the weather side, so that the sounding-line should not foul the bottom of the vessel and smash the apparatus."