clew-garnet, clue-Naut.[f. clew n. + garnet.]A tackle to ‘clew up’ the ‘courses’ or lower square-sails in furling; cf. clew-line.α1626Capt. Smith Accid. Yng. Seamen 15 Clew garnits, tyes, martlits.1627― Seaman's Gram. 22 The Clew garnet is a rope made fast to the clew of the saile, and from thence runnes in a blocke seased to the middle of the yard, which in furling doth hale vp the clew of the saile close to the middle of the yard.1749Chalmers in Phil.Trans. XLVI. 366 We..had our Fore and Main Clew-Garnets manned to haul up our Courses.1884Daily News 7 Oct. 2/5 He went to his station on the clew-garnet.β1762Falconer Shipwr. ii. 165 Mann the clue-garnetts, let the main-sheet fly.1825H. Gascoigne Nav. Fame 49 The weighty Courses from their arms they cast, Cluegarnets, Buntlines, for the present fast.