-
square sail design—it is the arc of a
circle above a
straight line from
clew to clew at the foot of a
square sail, from
which sail
material is omitted. The...
- "Here
comes Cape Horn!" said the
chief mate; and we had
hardly time
to haul
down and
clew up,
before it was upon us. In a few moments, a
heavier sea was raised...
- chain) used
to control the
movable corner(s) (
clews) of a sail. In
nautical usage the term "sheet" is
applied to a line or
chain attached to the
lower corners...
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because he
believed Daedalus gave Minos's daughter, Ariadne, a
clew (or ball of string) in
order to help
Theseus escape the
labyrinth and
defeat the Minotaur...
- Cahernamart) is a town in
County Mayo in Ireland. It is at the south-east
corner of
Clew Bay, an
inlet of the
Atlantic Ocean on the west
coast of Ireland. Westport...
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Dorinish (Irish: Deoirinis) is an
uninhabited island in
Clew Bay in
County Mayo, Ireland.
During the 1970s it was
briefly inhabited by
Hippies who established...
-
masts to help out the Bolling, but were
gradually running up on her as the wind was fair and we were
making good time. The
order was
given to clew down (haul)...
-
trumpet (2, 6)
Jerry Hey –
trumpet (2, 6), horn
arrangements (2, 6)
Janey Clewer –
backing vocals (1, 4, 7–9) Edie
Lehmann –
backing vocals (1, 7–9) Bobbi...
- low-lying
areas in
between drumlin ridges. The most
notable example of this is
Clew Bay in the west of Ireland,
which contains hundreds of
drumlin islands and...
- Paul
Gordon Clews (born 19 July 1979 in Coventry, England) is a
former motorcycle speedway rider from England.
Clews has
ridden for
Great Britain at Under-21...