CLEARY

Name Report For First Name CLEARY:

First name CLEARY's origin is Gaelic. CLEARY means "scholar". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with CLEARY below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of cleary.(Brown names are of the same origin (Gaelic) with CLEARY and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with CLEARY - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming CLEARY

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES CLEARY AS A WHOLE:

NAMES RHYMING WITH CLEARY (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 5 Letters (leary) - Names That Ends with leary:

leary

Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (eary) - Names That Ends with eary:

aeary keary sheary geary

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ary) - Names That Ends with ary:

tamary hilary hillary mary rosemary cary conary dary gary zachary zackary zakary

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ry) - Names That Ends with ry:

kundry khairy barry jory avery emery perry salisbury thiery ambry cherry devery dory ivory kerry margery merry sherry amery amory carbry cory darry derry ellery emory farry flannery gerry gilvarry gorry gregory harry jeffery jeffry jerry larry mallory montgomery mukonry murry rorry rory sallsbury terry thierry torry tory zackery dimitry stanbury kendry fakhry cundry khoury landry roxbury amaury henry aubry corry destry devry garry

NAMES RHYMING WITH CLEARY (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 5 Letters (clear) - Names That Begins with clear:

Rhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (clea) - Names That Begins with clea:

cleantha cleavon

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (cle) - Names That Begins with cle:

cleirach cleit clematis clemence clementina clementine clementius clennan cleo cleobis cleon cleonie cleopatra cletus cleva cleve cleveland clevon

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (cl) - Names That Begins with cl:

cla claas clach clady clae claec claefer claeg claegborne claegtun claennis claiborn claiborne clair claire clamedeus clancy clara clare claressa claresta clareta clarette claribel clarice clarimond clarimonda clarimonde clarimunda clarinda clarine clarion claris clarisa clarissa clarissant clarisse clarita clark clarke clarrisa claud claudas claude claudelle claudette claudia claudina claudine claudio claudios claudius claus clay clayborne claybourne clayburn clayson clayton cliantha clianthe cliff clifford cliffton clifland clifton cliftu cliftun clint clinton clinttun clintwood clio clive clodagh clodovea clodoveo cloe cloee cloria

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CLEARY:

First Names which starts with 'cl' and ends with 'ry':

First Names which starts with 'c' and ends with 'y':

cacey cadby cady cagney cailey cailsey caitly caley cally caly camey carey carley carly carney casey cassidy cassy cathly cathy cauley cawley cerny chaisly chancey chaney chantay chardonnay charity charley charly chassidy chauncey chauncy chelsey chelsy cheney chesley chesney chevy choncey chrissy christy cicely cicily cidney cindy cluny coby codey cody colbey colby coley conley connolly conny conroy conway cony cooey cooley cooney corby corday corey corky corley correy cortney courtenay courtnay courtney covey cranley cranly crissy cristy crosley crosly crowley culley cully curney cydney cymberly cyndy cyneley czigany

English Words Rhyming CLEARY

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES CLEARY AS A WHOLE:

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CLEARY (According to last letters):

Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (leary) - English Words That Ends with leary:

bleary

adjective (a.) Somewhat blear.

cochleary

adjective (a.) Same as Cochleate.

trochleary

adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or connected with, a trochlea; trochlear; as, the trochleary, or trochlear, nerve.

Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (eary) - English Words That Ends with eary:

alveary	noun (n.) A beehive, or something resembling a beehive.
	noun (n.) The hollow of the external ear.

aweary

adjective (a.) Weary.

balneary

noun (n.) A bathing room.

deary

noun (n.) A dear; a darling.

interlineary	noun (n.) A book containing interlineations.
	adjective (a.) Interlinear.

laqueary

adjective (a.) Using a noose, as a gladiator.

lineary

adjective (a.) Linear.

smeary

adjective (a.) Tending to smear or soil; adhesive; viscous.

speary

adjective (a.) Having the form of a spear.

teary	adjective (a.) Wet with tears; tearful.
	adjective (a.) Consisting of tears, or drops like tears.

tracheary	noun (n.) One of the Trachearia.
	adjective (a.) Tracheal; breathing by means of tracheae.

Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ary) - English Words That Ends with ary:

abecedary	noun (n.) A primer; the first principle or rudiment of anything.
	adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or formed by, the letters of the alphabet; alphabetic; hence, rudimentary.

ablutionary

adjective (a.) Pertaining to ablution.

accessary	noun (n.) One who, not being present, contributes as an assistant or instigator to the commission of an offense.
	adjective (a.) Accompanying, as a subordinate; additional; accessory; esp., uniting in, or contributing to, a crime, but not as chief actor. See Accessory.

accustomary

adjective (a.) Usual; customary.

acetary

noun (n.) An acid pulp in certain fruits, as the pear.

actionary

noun (n.) Alt. of Actionist

actuary	noun (n.) A registrar or clerk; -- used originally in courts of civil law jurisdiction, but in Europe used for a clerk or registrar generally.
	noun (n.) The computing official of an insurance company; one whose profession it is to calculate for insurance companies the risks and premiums for life, fire, and other insurances.

additionary

adjective (a.) Additional.

admaxillary

adjective (a.) Near to the maxilla or jawbone.

adminiculary

adjective (a.) Adminicular.

adversary	noun (n.) One who is turned against another or others with a design to oppose or resist them; a member of an opposing or hostile party; an opponent; an antagonist; an enemy; a foe.
	adjective (a.) Opposed; opposite; adverse; antagonistic.
	adjective (a.) Having an opposing party; not unopposed; as, an adversary suit.

aestuary

noun (n. & a.) See Estuary.

alary

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to wings; also, wing-shaped.

alimentary

adjective (a.) Pertaining to aliment or food, or to the function of nutrition; nutritious; alimental; as, alimentary substances.

allodiary

noun (n.) One who holds an allodium.

alveolary

adjective (a.) Alveolar.

ampullary

adjective (a.) Resembling an ampulla.

ancillary

adjective (a.) Subservient or subordinate, like a handmaid; auxiliary.

anniversary	noun (n.) The annual return of the day on which any notable event took place, or is wont to be celebrated; as, the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
	noun (n.) The day on which Mass is said yearly for the soul of a deceased person; the commemoration of some sacred event, as the dedication of a church or the consecration of a pope.
	noun (n.) The celebration which takes place on an anniversary day.
	adjective (a.) Returning with the year, at a stated time; annual; yearly; as, an anniversary feast.

annuary	noun (n.) A yearbook.
	adjective (a.) Annual.

annulary

adjective (a.) Having the form of a ring; annular.

antidotary

adjective (a.) Antidotal.

antiphonary

noun (n.) A book containing a collection of antiphons; the book in which the antiphons of the breviary, with their musical notes, are contained.

antiquary	noun (n.) One devoted to the study of ancient times through their relics, as inscriptions, monuments, remains of ancient habitations, statues, coins, manuscripts, etc.; one who searches for and studies the relics of antiquity.
	adjective (a.) Pertaining to antiquity.

apiary

noun (n.) A place where bees are kept; a stand or shed for bees; a beehouse.

apocrisiary

noun (n.) Alt. of Apocrisiarius

apothecary

noun (n.) One who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes.

arbitrary	adjective (a.) Depending on will or discretion; not governed by any fixed rules; as, an arbitrary decision; an arbitrary punishment.
	adjective (a.) Exercised according to one's own will or caprice, and therefore conveying a notion of a tendency to abuse the possession of power.
	adjective (a.) Despotic; absolute in power; bound by no law; harsh and unforbearing; tyrannical; as, an arbitrary prince or government.

arborary

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to trees; arboreal.

armamentary

noun (n.) An armory; a magazine or arsenal.

armillary

noun (n.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a bracelet or ring; consisting of rings or circles.

arrectary

noun (n.) An upright beam.

articulary

noun (n.) A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes.

atrabiliary	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to atra bilis or black bile, a fluid formerly supposed to be produced by the kidneys.
	adjective (a.) Melancholic or hypohondriac; atrabilious; -- from the supposed predominance of black bile, to the influence of which the ancients attributed hypochondria, melancholy, and mania.

auctary

noun (n.) That which is superadded; augmentation.

auctionary

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to an auction or an auctioneer.

auxiliary	noun (n.) A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or enterprise.
	noun (n.) Foreign troops in the service of a nation at war; (rarely in sing.), a member of the allied or subsidiary force.
	adjective (a.) Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops.
	(sing.) A verb which helps to form the voices, modes, and tenses of other verbs; -- called, also, an auxiliary verb; as, have, be, may, can, do, must, shall, and will, in English; etre and avoir, in French; avere and essere, in Italian; estar and haber, in Spanish.
	(sing.) A quantity introduced for the purpose of simplifying or facilitating some operation, as in equations or trigonometrical formulae.

aviary

noun (n.) A house, inclosure, large cage, or other place, for keeping birds confined; a bird house.

axillary	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the axilla or armpit; as, axillary gland, artery, nerve.
	adjective (a.) Situated in, or rising from, an axil; of or pertaining to an axil.

bacillary	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to little rods; rod-shaped.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to bacilli; produced by, or containing, bacilli; bacillar; as, a bacillary disease.

barbary

noun (n.) The countries on the north coast of Africa from Egypt to the Atlantic. Hence: A Barbary horse; a barb. [Obs.] Also, a kind of pigeon.

basilary	noun (n.) Relating to, or situated at, the base.
	noun (n.) Lower; inferior; applied to impulses or springs of action.

beggary	noun (n.) The act of begging; the state of being a beggar; mendicancy; extreme poverty.
	noun (n.) Beggarly appearance.
	adjective (a.) Beggarly.

benedictionary

noun (n.) A collected series of benedictions.

beneficiary	noun (n.) A feudatory or vassal; hence, one who holds a benefice and uses its proceeds.
	noun (n.) One who receives anything as a gift; one who receives a benefit or advantage; esp. one who receives help or income from an educational fund or a trust estate.
	adjective (a.) Holding some office or valuable possession, in subordination to another; holding under a feudal or other superior; having a dependent and secondary possession.
	adjective (a.) Bestowed as a gratuity; as, beneficiary gifts.

bibliothecary

noun (n.) A librarian.

bicentenary	noun (n.) The two hundredth anniversary, or its celebration.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to two hundred, esp. to two hundred years; as, a bicentenary celebration.

biliary

adjective (a.) Relating or belonging to bile; conveying bile; as, biliary acids; biliary ducts.

binary	noun (n.) That which is constituted of two figures, things, or parts; two; duality.
	adjective (a.) Compounded or consisting of two things or parts; characterized by two (things).

blomary

noun (n.) See Bloomery.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CLEARY (According to first letters):

Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (clear) - Words That Begins with clear:

clear	noun (n.) Full extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls; as, a room ten feet square in the clear.
	superlative (superl.) Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.
	superlative (superl.) Free from ambiguity or indistinctness; lucid; perspicuous; plain; evident; manifest; indubitable.
	superlative (superl.) Able to perceive clearly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating; as, a clear intellect; a clear head.
	superlative (superl.) Not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful.
	superlative (superl.) Easily or distinctly heard; audible; canorous.
	superlative (superl.) Without mixture; entirely pure; as, clear sand.
	superlative (superl.) Without defect or blemish, such as freckles or knots; as, a clear complexion; clear lumber.
	superlative (superl.) Free from guilt or stain; unblemished.
	superlative (superl.) Without diminution; in full; net; as, clear profit.
	superlative (superl.) Free from impediment or obstruction; unobstructed; as, a clear view; to keep clear of debt.
	superlative (superl.) Free from embarrassment; detention, etc.
	adverb (adv.) In a clear manner; plainly.
	adverb (adv.) Without limitation; wholly; quite; entirely; as, to cut a piece clear off.
	verb (v. t.) To render bright, transparent, or undimmed; to free from clouds.
	verb (v. t.) To free from impurities; to clarify; to cleanse.
	verb (v. t.) To free from obscurity or ambiguity; to relive of perplexity; to make perspicuous.
	verb (v. t.) To render more quick or acute, as the understanding; to make perspicacious.
	verb (v. t.) To free from impediment or incumbrance, from defilement, or from anything injurious, useless, or offensive; as, to clear land of trees or brushwood, or from stones; to clear the sight or the voice; to clear one's self from debt; -- often used with of, off, away, or out.
	verb (v. t.) To free from the imputation of guilt; to justify, vindicate, or acquit; -- often used with from before the thing imputed.
	verb (v. t.) To leap or pass by, or over, without touching or failure; as, to clear a hedge; to clear a reef.
	verb (v. t.) To gain without deduction; to net.
	verb (v. i.) To become free from clouds or fog; to become fair; -- often followed by up, off, or away.
	verb (v. i.) To disengage one's self from incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free.
	verb (v. i.) To make exchanges of checks and bills, and settle balances, as is done in a clearing house.
	verb (v. i.) To obtain a clearance; as, the steamer cleared for Liverpool to-day.

clearing	noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clear
	noun (n.) The act or process of making clear.
	noun (n.) A tract of land cleared of wood for cultivation.
	noun (n.) A method adopted by banks and bankers for making an exchange of checks held by each against the others, and settling differences of accounts.
	noun (n.) The gross amount of the balances adjusted in the clearing house.

clearage

noun (n.) The act of removing anything; clearance.

clearance	noun (n.) The act of clearing; as, to make a thorough clearance.
	noun (n.) A certificate that a ship or vessel has been cleared at the customhouse; permission to sail.
	noun (n.) Clear or net profit.
	noun (n.) The distance by which one object clears another, as the distance between the piston and cylinder head at the end of a stroke in a steam engine, or the least distance between the point of a cogwheel tooth and the bottom of a space between teeth of a wheel with which it engages.

clearedness

noun (n.) The quality of being cleared.

clearer	noun (n.) One who, or that which, clears.
	noun (n.) A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished.

clearness

noun (n.) The quality or state of being clear.

clearstraching

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clearstarch

clearstarcher

noun (n.) One who clearstarches.

clearstory

noun (n.) Alt. of Clerestory

clearwing

noun (n.) A lepidopterous insect with partially transparent wings, of the family Aegeriadae, of which the currant and peach-tree borers are examples.

clearcole	noun (n.) A priming of size mixed with whiting or white lead, used in house painting, etc.; also, a size upon which gold leaf is applied in gilding.
	verb (v. t.) To coat or paint with clearcole.

clearcoling

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clearcole

Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (clea) - Words That Begins with clea:

cleading	noun (n.) A jacket or outer covering of wood, etc., to prevent radiation of heat, as from the boiler, cylinder. etc., of a steam engine.
	noun (n.) The planking or boarding of a shaft, cofferdam, etc.

cleaning	noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clean
	noun (n.) The act of making clean.
	noun (n.) The afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc.

clean	adjective (a.) To render clean; to free from whatever is foul, offensive, or extraneous; to purify; to cleanse.
	superlative (superl.) Free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes.
	superlative (superl.) Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects; as, clean land; clean timber.
	superlative (superl.) Free from awkwardness; not bungling; adroit; dexterous; as, aclean trick; a clean leap over a fence.
	superlative (superl.) Free from errors and vulgarisms; as, a clean style.
	superlative (superl.) Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.
	superlative (superl.) Free from moral defilement; sinless; pure.
	superlative (superl.) Free from ceremonial defilement.
	superlative (superl.) Free from that which is corrupting to the morals; pure in tone; healthy.
	superlative (superl.) Well-proportioned; shapely; as, clean limbs.
	adverb (adv.) Without limitation or remainder; quite; perfectly; wholly; entirely.
	adverb (adv.) Without miscarriage; not bunglingly; dexterously.

cleaner

noun (n.) One who, or that which, cleans.

cleanliness

noun (n.) State of being cleanly; neatness of person or dress.

cleanness	noun (n.) The state or quality of being clean.
	noun (n.) Purity of life or language; freedom from licentious courses.

cleansable

adjective (a.) Capable of being cleansed.

cleansing

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cleanse

cleanser

noun (n.) One who, or that which, cleanses; a detergent.

cleat	noun (n.) A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc.
	noun (n.) A device made of wood or metal, having two arms, around which turns may be taken with a line or rope so as to hold securely and yet be readily released. It is bolted by the middle to a deck or mast, etc., or it may be lashed to a rope.
	verb (v. t.) To strengthen with a cleat.

cleavable

adjective (a.) Capable of cleaving or being divided.

cleavage	noun (n.) The act of cleaving or splitting.
	noun (n.) The quality possessed by many crystallized substances of splitting readily in one or more definite directions, in which the cohesive attraction is a minimum, affording more or less smooth surfaces; the direction of the dividing plane; a fragment obtained by cleaving, as of a diamond. See Parting.
	noun (n.) Division into laminae, like slate, with the lamination not necessarily parallel to the plane of deposition; -- usually produced by pressure.

cleaving	noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cleave
	noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cleave

cleavelandite

noun (n.) A variety of albite, white and lamellar in structure.

cleaver

noun (n.) One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.

cleavers

noun (n.) A species of Galium (G. Aparine), having a fruit set with hooked bristles, which adhere to whatever they come in contact with; -- called also, goose grass, catchweed, etc.

Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (cle) - Words That Begins with cle:

clerestory	noun (n.) The upper story of the nave of a church, containing windows, and rising above the aisle roofs.
	noun (n.) Same as Clearstory.

cleche

adjective (a.) Charged with another bearing of the same figure, and of the color of the field, so large that only a narrow border of the first bearing remains visible; -- said of any heraldic bearing. Compare Voided.

clechy

adjective (a.) See Cleche.

cledge

noun (n.) The upper stratum of fuller's earth.

cledgy

adjective (a.) Stiff, stubborn, clayey, or tenacious; as, a cledgy soil.

clee	noun (n.) A claw.
	noun (n.) The redshank.

clef

noun (n.) A character used in musical notation to determine the position and pitch of the scale as represented on the staff.

cleft	noun (n.) A space or opening made by splitting; a crack; a crevice; as, the cleft of a rock.
	noun (n.) A piece made by splitting; as, a cleft of wood.
	noun (n.) A disease in horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.
	adjective (a.) Divided; split; partly divided or split.
	adjective (a.) Incised nearly to the midrib; as, a cleft leaf.
	(imp.) of Cleave
	(p. p.) of Cleave
	() imp. & p. p. from Cleave.

cleg

noun (n.) A small breeze or horsefly.

cleistogamic

adjective (a.) Alt. of Cleistogamous

cleistogamous

adjective (a.) Having, beside the usual flowers, other minute, closed flowers, without petals or with minute petals; -- said of certain species of plants which possess flowers of two or more kinds, the closed ones being so constituted as to insure self-fertilization.

clematis

noun (n.) A genus of flowering plants, of many species, mostly climbers, having feathery styles, which greatly enlarge in the fruit; -- called also virgin's bower.

clemence

noun (n.) Clemency.

clemency	noun (n.) Disposition to forgive and spare, as offenders; mildness of temper; gentleness; tenderness; mercy.
	noun (n.) Mildness or softness of the elements; as, the clemency of the season.

clement

adjective (a.) Mild in temper and disposition; merciful; compassionate.

clementine

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Clement, esp. to St. Clement of Rome and the spurious homilies attributed to him, or to Pope Clement V. and his compilations of canon law.

clench

noun (n. & v. t.) See Clinch.

cleping

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clepe

clepsine

noun (n.) A genus of fresh-water leeches, furnished with a proboscis. They feed upon mollusks and worms.

clepsydra

noun (n.) A water clock; a contrivance for measuring time by the graduated flow of a liquid, as of water, through a small aperture. See Illust. in Appendix.

cleptomania

noun (n.) See Kleptomania.

clergeon

noun (n.) A chorister boy.

clergial

adjective (a.) Learned; erudite; clerical.

clergical

adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the clergy; clerical; clerkily; learned.

clergy	noun (n.) The body of men set apart, by due ordination, to the service of God, in the Christian church, in distinction from the laity; in England, usually restricted to the ministers of the Established Church.
	noun (n.) Learning; also, a learned profession.
	noun (n.) The privilege or benefit of clergy.

clergyable

adjective (a.) Entitled to, or admitting, the benefit of clergy; as, a clergyable felony.

clergyman

noun (n.) An ordained minister; a man regularly authorized to preach the gospel, and administer its ordinances; in England usually restricted to a minister of the Established Church.

cleric	noun (n.) A clerk, a clergyman.
	adjective (a.) Same as Clerical.

clerical	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the clergy; suitable for the clergy.
	adjective (a.) Of or relating to a clerk or copyist, or to writing.

clericalism

noun (n.) An excessive devotion to the interests of the sacerdotal order; undue influence of the clergy; sacerdotalism.

clericity

noun (n.) The state of being a clergyman.

clerisy	noun (n.) The literati, or well educated class.
	noun (n.) The clergy, or their opinions, as opposed to the laity.

clerk	noun (n.) A clergyman or ecclesiastic.
	noun (n.) A man who could read; a scholar; a learned person; a man of letters.
	noun (n.) A parish officer, being a layman who leads in reading the responses of the Episcopal church service, and otherwise assists in it.
	noun (n.) One employed to keep records or accounts; a scribe; an accountant; as, the clerk of a court; a town clerk.
	noun (n.) An assistant in a shop or store.

clerkless

adjective (a.) Unlearned.

clerklike

adjective (a.) Scholarlike.

clerkliness

noun (n.) Scholarship.

clerkly	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a clerk.
	adverb (adv.) In a scholarly manner.

clerkship

noun (n.) State, quality, or business of a clerk.

cleromancy

noun (n.) A divination by throwing dice or casting lots.

cleronomy

noun (n.) Inheritance; heritage.

clerstory

noun (n.) See Clearstory.

clever	adjective (a.) Possessing quickness of intellect, skill, dexterity, talent, or adroitness; expert.
	adjective (a.) Showing skill or adroitness in the doer or former; as, a clever speech; a clever trick.
	adjective (a.) Having fitness, propriety, or suitableness.
	adjective (a.) Well-shaped; handsome.
	adjective (a.) Good-natured; obliging.

cleverish

adjective (a.) Somewhat clever.

cleverness

noun (n.) The quality of being clever; skill; dexterity; adroitness.

clevis

noun (n.) A piece of metal bent in the form of an oxbow, with the two ends perforated to receive a pin, used on the end of the tongue of a plow, wagen, etc., to attach it to a draft chain, whiffletree, etc.; -- called also clavel, clevy.

clew	noun (n.) Alt. of Clue
	noun (n.) To direct; to guide, as by a thread.
	noun (n.) To move of draw (a sail or yard) by means of the clew garnets, clew lines, etc.; esp. to draw up the clews of a square sail to the yard.

clewing

noun (imp. & p. p. & vb. n.) of Clew

cleek	noun (n.) A large hook or crook, as for a pot over a fire; specif., an iron-headed golf club with a straight, narrow face and a long shaft.
	noun (n.) Act of cleeking; a clutch.
	verb (v. t.) To seize; clutch; snatch; catch; pluck.
	verb (v. t.) To catch or draw out with a cleek, as a fish; to hook.
	verb (v. t.) To hook or link (together); hence, to marry.