Definition of "clewed" [clewed]

• Simple past tense and past participle of clew. (verb)

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• ""let go the anchor," which Main Brace did promptly, with an "Ay, ay, sir!" and then he "clewed" up the sails, and spread a white and red striped and red-fringed awning over the place where they were seated, and said he was now going on with the story."
• "The topsails were soon clewed up and made fast, then the flying jib run down and furled."
• "He ordered more of his men aboard, and had all the canvas clewed up and furled snugly away."