so near
the wind as to fill the sails without shaking them.

CLOSE WITH THE LAND, TO. To approach near to it.

CLOSH [from the Danish _klos_]. A sobriquet for east-country seamen.

CLOTHED. A mast is said to be clothed when the sail is so long as to
reach the deck-gratings. Also, well clothed with canvas; sails well cut,
well set, and plenty of them.

CLOTHES-LINES. A complete system of parallel lines, hoisted between the
main and mizen masts twice a week to dry the washed clothes of the
seamen.

CLOTHING. The rigging of the bowsprit.--_Clothing the bowsprit_ is
rigging it. Also, the purser's slops for the men.

CLOTH IN THE WIND. Too near to the wind, and sails shivering. Also,
groggy.

CLOTHS. In a sail, are the breadths of canvas in its whole width. When a
ship has broad sails they say she spreads much cloth.

CLOTTING. A west-country method of catching eels with worsted thread.

CLOUD. A collection of vapours suspended in the atmosphere. Also, under
a cloud of canvas.

CLOUGH. A word derived from the verb _to cleave_, and signifying a
narrow valley between two hills. (_See_ CLEUGH.) Also, in commerce, an
allowance on the turn of the beam in weighing.

CLOUT. From the Teutonic _kotzen_, a blow. Also, a gore of blood.

CLOUT-NAILS [Fr. _clouter_]. To stud with nails, as ships' bottoms and
piles were before the introduction of sheet copper.

CLOUTS. Thin plates of iron nailed on that part of the axle-tree of a
gun-carriage that comes through the nave, and through which the
linch-pin goes.

CLOVE-HITCH. A knot or noose by which one rope is fastened to another.
(_See_ HITCH.) Two half hitches round a spar or rope.

CLOVE-HOOK. Synonymous with _clasp-hook_.

CLOVES. Planks made by cleaving. Certain weights for wool, butter, &c.
Also, long spike-nails [derived from _clou_, Fr.]

CLOW. A kind of sluice in which the aperture is regulated by a board
sliding in a frame and groove.

CLOY, TO. To drive an iron spike by main force into the vent or
touch-hole of a gun, which renders it unserviceable till the spike be
either worked out, or a new vent drilled. (_See_ NAILING and SPIKING.)

CLUBBED. A fashion which obtained in the time of pig-tails of doubling
them up while at sea.

CLUBBING. Drifting down a current with an anchor out.

CLUBBING A FLEET. Man[oe]uvring so as to place the first division on the
windward side.

CLUBBOCK. The spotted blenny or gunnel (_Gunnellus vulgaris_).

CLUB-HAUL, TO. A