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Is clew a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word clew is a Scrabble US word. The word clew is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Is clew a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word clew is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

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4-letter words (1 found)

CLEW,

3-letter words (2 found)

CEL,LEW,

2-letter words (3 found)

EL,EW,WE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 7 words from clew according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of clew

clew lcew celw eclw lecw elcw clwe lcwe cwle wcle lwce wlce cewl ecwl cwel wcel ewcl wecl lewc elwc lwec wlec ewlc welc

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Definitions and meaning of clew

clew

Etymology

Middle English clewe, from Old English cleowen, cliewen, cliwen (“sphere, ball, skein; ball of thread or yarn; mass, group”), from Proto-Germanic *kliuwiną, *klewô (“ball, bale”), from Proto-Indo-European *glew- (“to conglomerate, gather into a mass; clump, ball, bale”). Akin to Old English clǣġ (“clay”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kluː/, /kluʊ̯/
  • (obsolete) IPA(key): /kljuː/
  • Rhymes: -uː
  • Homophones: clue, clou

Noun

clew (plural clews)

  1. (obsolete) A roughly spherical mass or body.
    • c. 1600, Charles Estienne and 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. (archaic) A ball of thread or yarn.
  4. Yarn or thread as used to guide one's way through a maze or labyrinth; a guide, a clue.
  5. (nautical) 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. (on a triangular sail) The trailing corner relative to the wind direction.
    • 1858, The Atlantic Monthly, "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.
  6. (in the plural) The sheets so attached to a sail.
  7. (nautical, in the plural) The cords suspending a hammock.
  8. Obsolete spelling of clue

Coordinate terms

  • (lower corner of a sail): bunt

Derived terms

  • (lower corner of a sail, metal loop or cringle in the corner of the sail): clewline, full clew
  • (thread used to guide through a maze, clue): clewless

Translations

Verb

clew (third-person singular simple present clews, present participle clewing, simple past and past participle clewed)

  1. (transitive) to roll into a ball
  2. (nautical) (transitive and intransitive) to raise the lower corner(s) of (a sail)

See also

  • clew-garnet
  • clef
  • clue

References

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

clew

  1. Alternative form of clewe

Etymology 2

Noun

clew

  1. Alternative form of clough

Source: wiktionary.org