Clew (Verb)
Meaning
Roll into a ball.
Classification
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
Examples
- The long, uneven thread tended to clew into knots as she tried to wind it.
- Her grandmother taught her to clew the wool yarn tightly to prevent it from unraveling.
- After playing with the cat, the twine had started to clew into an unmanageable mess.
- She carefully wound the fragile string, making sure it didn't clew into tangles.
- The child's amateur attempt at wrapping a present resulted in the ribbon clewing into disorganized loops.