clew-garnet
noun- “Cast off the topsail sheets, clew garnets, leechlines and buntlines!” The order came thinly through the roar of the wind.1923, Charles Boardman Hawes, The Dark Frigate, Chapter 8:
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- The novelist Thornton Jenkins Hains, who often wrote about sailing, sometimes used the pen name Mayn Clew Garnett