And at eight bells that night we clewed up our main royal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dom Pedro] Reference

In a few minutes we had the yard lowered and the sail clewed up.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ghost Pirates] Reference

We got the sail clewed up without its going to pieces, but it took us over an hour.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912] Reference

Every sail was clewed up, while the anchors were weighed to prevent our thumping on them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference

He ordered more of his men aboard, and had all the canvas clewed up and furled snugly away.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Poacher] Reference

Then came the biremes with their double rows of oars, and clewed-up sails, swinging on the yards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference

The sails were just clewed up to prevent them from blowing away, until more time could be devoted to them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moving Picture Girls at Sea or, A Pictured Shipwreck That Became Real] Reference

At the beginning of her watch, at first sight of storm, the captain had ordered the sails hauled down and clewed up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ship Of Magic]

On the morning of the 17th, then, the sails were clewed up, and the Fram began to roll even worse than with the sails set.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912] Reference

Then the fore-top-sail was clewed up, the spanker set, the yards braced up sharp, and the ship continued forging ahead with increased motion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Von Toodleburgs Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family] Reference

The canvas was carried clean from the bolt-ropes, the sheets were let go, and the lighter sails clewed up, and an attempt made to get the ship's head to the wind and lay her to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Von Toodleburgs Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family] Reference

He clewed up his canvas like a wise mariner, and lay to while the Symplegades butted one another with their foreheads of adamant, and the sea was white with terror all about them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873] Reference

Instantly the captain ordered the sails to be clewed up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Jack] Reference

Like magic the sails were clewed up, the hands, fine active lads -- for she was.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Yacht Voyage Round England] Reference

I clewed up the canvas well as I could and managed to lash the mast up straight over the auto's bows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Depot Master] Reference

As we drew near, carried rapidly along by the current, we overhauled our chain, and clewed up the topsails.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference

The sailors got out additional sails, clewed up cordage and rigging, and put the ship in order for a fast run.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2)] Reference

The young one, no doubt aware of some danger, had drawn itself into its smallest bulk, and was clewed up behind her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon] Reference

When fairly abreast of this the canvas was clewed up, and the brig slid into the loch with the way that she had on her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Castaways] Reference

The fore-clue-garnets were manned, and the foresail was quickly clewed up, and the men flying aloft, it was securely furled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pirate of the Mediterranean A Tale of the Sea] Reference

Captain Denham was active, and the instant he found his top-sail flapping, he ordered it clewed up, and the main-sail loosed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Two Admirals] Reference

She came in under top-gallant-sails, clewed up and furled her sails in good order, and came-to within swinging distance of us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference

"Try them a little longer;" but another squall came suddenly -- the halyards were lowered, and the sails clewed up and furled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Midshipman Easy] Reference

She came in under top-gallant sails, clewed up and furled her sails in good order, and came-to, within good swinging distance of us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference

The light upper sails were secured, the courses had been clewed up, but the topsails were still but half-lashed when Wilkinson shouted again.    From Wordnik.com.  [At Aboukir and Acre A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt] Reference

He therefore, as soon as the boat shoved off from the side of the felucca, ordered the sails to be clewed up, to allow her more easily to approach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Jack] Reference

The light sails were clewed up and furled, the courses hauled up and the jibs down; then came the topsails in the buntlines, and the anchor let go.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference

The light sails were clewed up and furled, the courses hauled up, and the jibs down; then came the topsails in the buntlines, and the anchor let go.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference

We clewed down, and hauled out the reef-tackles again, and close-reefed the fore-topsail, and furled the main, and hove her to on the starboard tack.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference

We clewed down, and hauled out the reef-tackles again, and close-reefed the fore-topsail, and furled the main, and hove her to, on the starboard tack.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference

After some time she disappeared, either because her sails had been clewed up, or that she was too far off to be seen unless the sun was shining directly on them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Biddulph The Story of an Australian Settler] Reference

So we got the mainsail down and stowed it, clewed up the topsail (which I lent a hand to roll up), and let the vessel lie under a reefed foresail with her helm lashed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Frozen Pirate] Reference

Mr Gale flew to the helm, and put it down, while we flattened in the topsail-braces, and clewed up top-gallant-sails, and brailed up the courses, throwing the foretop-sail aback.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Jack] Reference