Definition of "clewing" [clewing]

• Present participle of clew. (verb)

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• "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."