clear away
Verb
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Verb
clear away
- (transitive) To tidy up, to remove mess or obstacles from a place to make it neat.
- (intransitive) To leave, disappear
- The showers should clear away tomorrow.
- (transitive, figuratively) To dispose of, to get rid of, to remove.
- (nautical, transitive) To prepare some object for use by removing obstacles, untying or unfastening it.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 13
- The schooner was run into the wind, and while the hands were clearing away the stern boat, Queequeg, stripped to the waist, darted from the side with a long living arc of a leap.
- 1893, Conan Doyle, The Refugees, chapter 26
- "Hiram Jefferson and John Moreton to the pumps!" cried the captain. "Mr. Tomlinson, clear away the long-boat and let us see if we may set her right, though I fear that she is past mending."
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 13
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