Clew is valid Scrabble Word

Is clew a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is clew valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

4 letters word
9 points in Scrabble
11 points in WWF

Definitions for CLEW in dictionary:

VERB:

to attach a rope to the corner of a sail
raise (or lower) a square sail by the clews when furling (or unfurling).
coil or roll into a ball

NOUN:

a corner of a sail with a hole to attach ropes
the lower or after corner of a sail.
the cords by which a hammock is suspended.
a ball of thread.
ball of thread, yarn, or twine
Alt. of Clue
To direct; to guide, as by a thread.

To move of draw (a sail or yard) by means of the clew garnets, clew lines, etc.; esp. to draw up the clews of a square sail to the yard.
a ball of yarn or cord or thread
evidence that helps to solve a problem

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to roll into a ball

Words related to CLEW

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Words that contain CLEW

clews10 clewed12 unclew11 clewing13 unclews12 cycleway21 unclewed14 cycleways22 unclewing15 musclewood18 musclewoods19

How to use CLEW in a sentence

You will thus give the authorities the very clew they need.
Remember, Sweet, He said there was a clew! I hold it.
The urgent business of the present moment is to obtain some clew to your missing brother.
A loving brother finally got hold of a clew, which he followed up so successfully that he at last solved the mystery.
The gang has managed matters so shrewdly that the authorities have been unable to get any clew to their whereabouts.
Indeed, I have lately come upon a clew which I think will lead me to her.
The last search had been made, the last clew followed, the last resources of wealth and skill were at an end, and these, these bones and trinkets were all that could be found.
She said her house was watched, and it was possible that some clew to me might be obtained.
Three weary years he spent thus, following every clew, but all to no purpose.
The first thing we did was to clew up the three top-gallant-sails.

Somers, and as her curiosity was piqued by his strange attire, she stopped to see if I could furnish a clew.
The Providence that rules us all, has not permitted us to be left without a clew in the most important of all questions.
And how unerringly life had put her finger upon that clew! So reasoned Harber.
This letter was posted in Dublin, from an apprehension lest the local post-office might furnish a clew to her present abode.
This experiment gives us the clew to the method of checking loss of water from the soil by evaporation.
He believed he had found the clew to his restlessness.
This was no doubt a clew to the thread that held the letter, to be used in case of accidents.
The envelope in which it had come gave no further clew.
The few verses preceding the text give a clew to this very state of mind and heart.
The rejected ones should Their fate is left in gloom, without a definite clew.
Tiernaur, I gathered, was about fifteen miles to the north-west along Clew Bay towards Ballycroy.
Therefore, if you do find any clew to the affair, we will not grumble at your following it up, even if it does take you away from home for a short time.
Everything possible was done to obtain some clew to the missing girl, but all to no purpose.
It is extraordinary that the first clew to this conspiracy should have been derived from information given by the father of the prisoner at the bar.
If ever you get the smallest clew, you ought then and there to determine that you will never let it go.
CHAPTER XXIII THE GOVERNMENT TEST For a moment Jackson thought Tom had discovered a clew to, or evidences of, some crime.
Each one of these connections serves as an avenue of approach, a clew by means of which the recall may operate.
The same clew of principle leads us through the labyrinth of the other departments.
The following letter furnishes a clew to his whereabouts, plans, etc.
To this address she had no other clew but that her aunt was Mrs.

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