clew

suomi-englanti sanakirja

clew englannista suomeksi

1. lankakerä

2. pyöriä

3. jälki

0. Substantiivi

1. kerä; pallero

2. lankakerä, kerä

3. johtolanka

4. skuuttikulma

5. skuutti

6. kiinnitysnarut (monikko) ">kiinnitysnarut (monikko)

6. Verbi

clew englanniksi

1. A roughly spherical mass or body.

2. c. 1600, Estienne|Charles Estienne and Liebault|Jean Liebault, tr. Richard Surflet, ''Maison Rustique, or, The Countrie Farme'':

If the whole troupe be diuided into many clewes, or round bunches, you need not then doubt but that there are many kings.

3. (RQ:Stedman Surinam)

4. (senseid) A ball of thread or yarn.

5. (RQ:Shakespeare All's Well)

6. {{quote-text|en|year=1831|translator=Isabel Florence Hapgood|author=Victor Hugo|title=Hunchback of Notre Dame/Book First/Chapter III|The Hunchback of Notre Dame

7. {{quote-text|en|year=1889|author=Andrew Lang|title=s:The Blue Fairy Book|chapter=s:The story of Prince Ahmed and the fairy Paribanou

8. (quote-book)

9. Yarn or thread as used to guide one's way through a maze or labyrinth; a guide, a clue.

10. The lower corner(s) of a sail to which a sheet is attached for trimming the sail (adjusting its position relative to the wind); the metal loop or cringle in the corner of the sail, to which the sheet is attached. The trailing corner relative to the wind direction.

11. 1858, ''The Atlantic Monthly'', "Atlantic Monthly/Volume 2/No. 5/The Language of the Sea|The Language of the Sea":

"Clew" is Saxon; "garnet" (from granato, a fruit) is Italian,—that is, the garnet- or pomegranate-shaped block fastened to the clew or corner of the courses, and hence the rope running through the block.

12. The sheets so attached to a sail.

13. {{quote-text|en|year=1913|author=John Masefield|title=s:Dauber

14. The cords suspending a hammock.

15. {{quote-text|en|year=2000|author=Ralph W Danklefsen|title=The Navy I Remember|page=21|publisher=Xlibris

16. (obsolete spelling of)

17. (RQ:Poe Rue Morgue)

18. (quote-book)|volume=III,1856|publisher=Harper & Brothers|location=New York|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=rWINAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA13|page=13

19. (quote-book)|title=The Female Detective|passage=Now, the fact is, I had started because I thought I saw the end of a good clew.

20. {{quote-text|en|year=1910|chapter=Duck Eats Yeast,|title=The Yakima Herald

21. (RQ:Burroughs Princess of Mars)

22. {{quote-text|en|year=1926|author=Robertus Love|title=The Rise and Fall of Jesse James|publisher=University of Nebraska|year_published=1990

23. {{quote-book|en|year=1954|author=Robert Heinlein|title=The Star Beast|publisher=New English Library

24. to roll into a ball

25. to raise the lower corner(s) of (a sail)

26. (alt form)