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Clew

verb
(past & past part. clewed; pres. part. clewing)
1.
Roll into a ball.  Synonym: clue.
noun
1.
A ball of yarn or cord or thread.
2.
Evidence that helps to solve a problem.  Synonyms: clue, cue.





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"Clew" Quotes from Famous Books



... attempt to enter the cottage, but hastened back to the hotel, in a state of agitation difficult to describe. I could not make up my mind to pass unnoticed such extraordinary coincidences; but how was any clew to be obtained ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 • Various
... bar. The surf had beaten in her hatches, broken some plates, and afterwards washed her back across the sand. Then, while the captain tried to reach the beach, she had sunk in deeper water. The story was plausible, but, if Cartwright had found the proper clew, it ...
— Lister's Great Adventure • Harold Bindloss
... doors in the room where she sat, one opening into the inner office where I was at work, and two opening into a hall, one on the side and the other on the end opposite the freight elevator. We searched the entire building without finding a clew, and I ...
— The Mystery of Mary • Grace Livingston Hill
... Also, she saw the agents and emissaries of foreign investors in Mexico, always in haste and often inopportune, arriving at the ranch to confer with Dick. Beyond his complaint that they ate the heart out of his time, he gave her no clew to ...
— The Little Lady of the Big House • Jack London
... vain to obtain a clew to the lost treasure. He knew of no one that had visited the house during the fire who was bad enough to steal, unless it was Dock Vincent; but it was not right to suspect even him of the crime without some evidence. Neither Levi nor his uncle saw how Dock could have taken off the board, removed ...
— Freaks of Fortune - or, Half Round the World • Oliver Optic


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