(nautical, UK) To tighten up a sailboat's sheets in order to prevent luffing.
(nautical, UK) To tighten up a sailboat's sheets in order to prevent luffing.
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(UK, informal) To finish up or to tidy up, as in the tie up a sail on a sailing boat, the clew being a part of the structure holding the sail. Comes from the nautical term "clew".
(nautical) To haul up; usually, to haul the slack of (a rope) through its leading block, or to haul up (a tackle which hangs loose) by its fall.
To prevent (enemy vessels) from leaving an anchorage.
(transitive, idiomatic) To fasten (a piece of clothing, etc.); to tighten (a nut etc.).
(informal, transitive) To become or make (something, someone) hard, either literally or figuratively.
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