society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > carry specific amount of sail [verb (transitive)] > draw up for furling (3)
transitive. ‘To haul up the middle part of (a sail) in furling’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.).
To haul up (the sails) by means of the brails.
Nautical. to clew up: to draw the lower ends or clews (of sails) up to the upper yard or the mast in preparation for furling or for making…