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from The Century Dictionary.

  • To extend (the foot of the foresail of a square-rigged vessel) by hauling its clue out to an eye on the lower studdingsail-boom.
  • noun Nautical, a tackle to spread the clues of a foresail when sailing large or before the wind.

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