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    Sail components (redirect from Clew up)
    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...
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    England. Clewer makes up three wards of the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, namely Clewer North, Clewer South and Clewer East. The name Clewer comes...
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    Henry Clews (August 14, 1834 – January 31, 1923) was a British-American financier and author. He was an economic advisor to President Ulysses S. Grant...
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    stop" reaction to a man overboard emergency, for sailing boats that have an engine available for further maneuvers to approach and pick up the casualty...
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  • Look up clews in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Clews or CLEWS may refer to: Clew, a part of a sail Clews (duo), an Australian pop music duo Clews (surname)...
    514 bytes (99 words) - 21:58, 13 February 2022
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    Clewer Park can be found within the village of Clewer to the west of Windsor, England. Today Clewer Park consists of a small estate of residential homes...
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    Clews Competition Machines (CCM) is a British motorcycle manufacturer based in Bolton, England. CCM was founded in 1971 by Alan Clews and gained notability...
    9 KB (944 words) - 10:49, 22 December 2023
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    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...
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    'snow' comes from 'snauw', which is an old Dutch word for beak, a reference to the characteristic sharp bow of the vessel. The snow evolved from the (three-masted)...
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  • "Gone Up in Flames" is the debut single by English rock band Morning Runner, from their debut studio album, Wilderness Is Paradise Now. The song was first...
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    Community of St John Baptist, an Anglican convent of Augustinian nuns in Clewer (Windsor, Berkshire) from 1867. The college took gentlemen's daughters,...
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  • Gemma Clews (born 1 October 1994) is an English professional golfer and Ladies European Tour player. Clews was born in Manchester and started playing golf...
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    Henry Clews Jr. (April 23, 1876 – July 28, 1937) was an American-born artist who moved to France in 1914 in search of greater artistic freedom. He is...
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    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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     232 Clew 1990, p. 13 Clew 1990, p. 163 Clew 1990, p. 187 Clew 1990, p. 177 Clew 1990, p. 71 Clew 1990, p. 93 Bacon 1990 Clew 1990, p. 111 Clew 1990,...
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    two to three pairs. Pulling these points down to the boom forms a new tack and clew, reducing the sail's area. Using the pair of grommets closest to the...
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  • thin piece of metal Sheet (sailing), a line, cable or chain used to control the clew of a sail Sheet, Hampshire, a village and civil parish in East Hampshire...
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    "Trans-Labrador Highway paving complete". July 5, 2022. "Final stretch of roadwork clews up to complete 25-year Trans-Labrador Highway project | SaltWire". "Labrador...
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    Icarus (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    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...
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    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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