The clewline gave way at the first pull; the cleat to which the halyards were belayed was wrenched off, and the sail blew round the spritsail yards and head guys, which gave us a bad job to get it in.
Be smart now and rig-out that clewline there to the brace-block at the end of the yardarm.
The sail ballooned out; and then, slatting against the yard as the brace was hauled in, the clewline caught him unexpectedly, tripping him up and knocked him out of the rigging headlong into the sea!
If the yard is braced up, the old style was to let go the halyards, clew down and round in on the weather brace; clewing up to windward first, then start the lee clew, and haul up the lee clewline and the buntlines.
But the practice now is to clew up to leeward first, which prevents the slack of the sail getting too much over to leeward, or foul of the clewline block under the yard, as it is apt to, if the weather clew is hauled up first.
Let go the outhaul, and haul on the clewline till the outer clew is up to the yard.
The weather clew being up, let go the lee sheet and haul up by the clewline and buntlines, keeping the clew in advance of the body of the sail.
The hands at the clewline walked away with it, until the rope bore hard on the throat of the carpenter.
The end of the whale line was then hooked to the clewline of the fore-square-sail, which had been detached for the purpose.
Phillips, who was the only one of the crew remaining on board, hastily belayed the clewline at the fife-rail, hauling it just taut enough to hold Bitts, without choking him to death.
The smallpox broke out in the prison, and poor Tommy Clewline was infected.
Mrs. Clewline had like to have sunk under the first transports of her grief and mortification; but these subsiding, she had recourse to personal solicitation.
He devoted more time even than Mr Clewline to the examination of the stranger, and it was not until Captain Brisac had returned to the deck and hailed him that he made a move.
We all received very great credit for what the papers were pleased to term our "dashing exploit;" Captain Brisac being rewarded with post rank, while Mr Sennitt was made a commander, and Mr Clewline moved a step up the ratlines.
Clewline can't be communicated with, however, where he is; so we must just do the best we can for ourselves.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clewline" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
