Then it was clewlines and buntlines and lowering of yards as the topgallant-sails were stripped off.
The skysails were already furled; men were furling the royals; and the topgallant-yards were running down while clewlines and buntlines bagged the canvas.
Stand by the main royal clewlines and buntlines," I heard him shout, and the next instant came the hollow thutter of the sail as he started to lower away.
Mr Jellaby, gripping hold of one of the clewlines which hung down from the broken yard and swayed about in the wind, preparing to swing himself across the encumbered deck to the port shrouds beyond, where the man was lashed.
The halyards were let go and the yard clewed down, and the sheets started, and in a few minutes the sails smothered and kept in by clewlines and buntlines.
Round in on the weather brace, ease off the halyards, and clew the yard down by the clewlines and reef-tackles.
In some vessels, instead of making the sheets and clewlines fast to the jack, overhand knots are taken in their ends, and they are let go.
Overhaul the clewlines and reef-tackles, slack the topgallant sheets, and hoist the sail up, taut leech, by the halyards.
Then let go the sheets and haul up on the clewlines and buntlines.
Be careful to unreeve the clewlines through the quarter-blocks.
A block fitted under the quarters of a yard on each side the slings, for the clewlinesand sheets to reeve through.
The sheets will run out to the topgallant yard-arms, and the clewlines will run to the fair-leaders in the cross-trees.
Hook or clasp the sheets to the clews, reeve the clewlines and reef-tackles, toggle the bowlines, clinch or toggle the buntlines to the foot of the sail, and stop the head to the buntlines.
Cast off the clewlinesand buntlines, and see all ready to sheet home and hoist away!
The ship was falling off a little before the fore-royal was clewed up, so Mr. Gibney ran back to the wheel and put her on her course again while McGuffey brought the main-royal clewlines to the winch.
He lashed the wheel and they brought the clewlines again to the winch head.
The clewlines for these sails are double, and are called "clew-garnets.
A glance at the picture will show the clew-garnets and clewlines coming down to the corners and the buntlines coming straight down the sails.
The "sheet" pulls the sail out to its full extent down to the yard below, the clewlines and buntlines bring it up under the yard for furling.
The clewlines are ropes fastened to the corners of the topsail, passing through blocks on the topsail yard, and leading down to the deck through the lubber's hole.
The ropes by which the lower corners of these sails are hauled up for furling are the clew-garnets--the same that are designated clewlines on the topsails.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clewlines" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
