different between clem vs clew
clem
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?m
Etymology 1
Compare clam (“to clog”), or German klemmen (“to jam, clamp; to be stuck, adhere (to a surface)”), Icelandic klmbra, English clamp.
Verb
clem (third-person singular simple present clems, present participle clemming, simple past and past participle clemmed)
- (Britain, dialect, transitive or intransitive) To be hungry; starve.
- 1889, Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, Between Two Loves, Ch. VI, p. 110:
- " […] Here he's back home again, and without work, and without a penny, and thou knows t' little one and I were pretty well clemmed to death when thou got us a bit o' bread and meat last night. We were that!"
- 1889, Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, Between Two Loves, Ch. VI, p. 110:
- To stick, adhere.
References
- The Dictionary of the Scots Language
Etymology 2
Possibly from clementine, a small round citrus fruit.
Noun
clem (plural clems)
- (Tyneside, vulgar, slang) A testicle.
References
- clem in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- ECML
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clew
English
Etymology
Middle English clewe, from Old English cleowen, cliewen, cliwen (“sphere, ball, skein; ball of thread or yarn; mass, group”), from Proto-Germanic *kliuwin?, *klewô (“ball, bale”), from Proto-Indo-European *glew- (“to conglomerate, gather into a mass; clump, ball, bale”). Akin to Old English cl?? (“clay”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /klu?/
- (obsolete) IPA(key): /klju?/
- Rhymes: -u?
- Homophone: clue
Noun
clew (plural clews)
- (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.
- c. 1600, Charles Estienne and Jean Liebault, tr. Richard Surflet, Maison Rustique, or, The Countrie Farme:
- (archaic) A ball of thread or yarn.
- 1831, Victor Hugo, tr. Isabel Florence Hapgood, The Hunchback of Notre Dame:
- A rare, precious, and never interrupted race of philosophers to whom wisdom, like another Ariadne, seems to have given a clew of thread which they have been walking along unwinding since the beginning of the world, through the labyrinth of human affairs.
- 1889, Andrew Lang, The Blue Fairy Book, "The story of Prince Ahmed and the fairy Paribanou":
- The Fairy Paribanou was at that time very hard at work, and, as she had several clews of thread by her, she took up one, and, presenting it to Prince Ahmed, said: "First take this clew of thread...
- 1831, Victor Hugo, tr. Isabel Florence Hapgood, The Hunchback of Notre Dame:
- Yarn or thread as used to guide one's way through a maze or labyrinth; a guide, a clue.
- (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.
- 1858, The Atlantic Monthly, "The Language of the Sea":
- (in the plural) The sheets so attached to a sail.
- 1913, John Masefield, Dauber
- The canvas running up in a proud sweep,
Wind-wrinkled at the clews, and white like lint,
- The canvas running up in a proud sweep,
- 1913, John Masefield, Dauber
- (nautical, in the plural) The cords suspending a hammock.
- 2000, Ralph W Danklefsen, The Navy I Remember, Xlibris 2000, p. 21:
- He taught us how to attach the clews to the ends of the hammock and then lash it between jack stays.
- 2000, Ralph W Danklefsen, The Navy I Remember, Xlibris 2000, p. 21:
- Obsolete spelling of clue
- 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James II, Volume III, 1856, Harper & Brothers, New York, page 13,
- The clew, without which it was perilous to enter the vast and intricate maze of Continental politics, was in his hands.
- 1910, "Duck Eats Yeast," The Yakima Herald:
- Telltale marks around the pan of yeast gave him a clew to the trouble.
- 1926, Robertus Love, The Rise and Fall of Jesse James, University of Nebraska, 1990:
- Not often did Jesse James leave a clew to his identity when he galloped away from a crime of violence, back into the mysterious Nowhere whence he came.
- 1954, Robert Heinlein, The Star Beast, New English Library:
- following the single clew that she must have gone off with a certain group of visitors from space; they knew what those visitors looked like but not from what part of the sky they came.
- 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James II, Volume III, 1856, Harper & Brothers, New York, page 13,
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
Translations
Verb
clew (third-person singular simple present clews, present participle clewing, simple past and past participle clewed)
- (transitive) to roll into a ball
- (nautical) (transitive and intransitive) to raise the lower corner(s) of (a sail)
See also
- clew-garnet
- clef
- clue
References
Middle English
Noun
clew
- Alternative form of clewe
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