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clear away

To prepare some object for use by removing obstacles, untying or unfastening it.
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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.

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Submitted on July 07, 2010

Additional definitions for 'clear away':

clear awayTo tidy up, to remove mess or obstacles from a place to make it neat.
clear awayTo leave, disappear
clear awayTo dispose of, to get rid of, to remove.
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