Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical, a shackle-shaped iron at the clues of large sails.
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Examples
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"Some people wouldn't know a clue if they were branded with a red-hot clue-iron"
Understatement of the day marypcb 2004
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The clue-iron which we are trying to make serve for the broken block works, however, very indifferently, and will, I am afraid, soon cut the rope.
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories Mark Twain 1872
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