clew-garnet

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A rope attaching to the clew (lower corner) of a sail, used to furl it.

Word forms

clew-garnet clew-garnets

Related words

The novelist Thornton Jenkins Hains who often wrote about sailing sometimes used the pen name Mayn Clew Garnett
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