Assertion: cringle | /r/HasProperty | nautical
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text: In context|nautical|lang=en terms the difference between cringle and clew is that cringle is (nautical) a short piece of rope, arranged as a grommet around a metal ring, used to attach tackle to a sail etc while clew is (nautical) (transitive and intransitive) to raise the lower corner(s) of (a sail).
text: As nouns the difference between cringle and clew is that cringle is (nautical) a short piece of rope, arranged as a grommet around a metal ring, used to attach tackle to a sail etc while clew is (obsolete) a roughly spherical mass or body.