Vocabulary : Clubhand to Clue
Clubhand : A short, distorted hand; also, the deformity of having such a hand.
Clubhaul : To put on the other tack by dropping the lee anchor as soon as the wind is out of the sails (which brings the vessel's head to the wind), and by cutting the cable as soon as she pays off on the other tack. Clubhauling is attempted only in an exigency.
Clubhouse : A house occupied by a club.
Clubroom : The apartment in which a club meets.
Club-rush : A rushlike plant, the reed mace or cat-tail, or some species of the genus Scirpus. See Bulrush.
Club-shaped : Enlarged gradually at the end, as the antennae of certain insects.
Cluck : To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen. ;; To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens. ;; The call of a hen to her chickens. ;; A click. See 3d Click, 2.
Clucked : of Cluck
Clucking : of Cluck ;; The noise or call of a brooding hen.
Clue : A ball of thread, yarn, or cord; also, The thread itself. ;; That which guides or directs one in anything of a doubtful or intricate nature; that which gives a hint in the solution of a mystery. ;; A lower corner of a square sail, or the after corner of a fore-and-aft sail. ;; A loop and thimbles at the corner of a sail. ;; A combination of lines or nettles by which a hammock is suspended. ;; A ball of thread; a thread or other means of guidance. Same as Clew.
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