Reefed

Word REEFED
Character 6
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Definitions and meanings of "Reefed"

What do we mean by reefed?

To take in part of a sail in order to adapt the size of the sail to the force of the wind.

To pull or yank strongly, especially in relation to horse riding.

(of paddles) To move the floats of a paddle wheel toward its center so that they will not dip so deeply.

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The word "reefed" in example sentences

The Jessie swung off under her full staysail, then the foresail, double-reefed, was run up. ❋ Unknown (2010)

To reef the mainsail we were forced to run off before the gale under the single reefed jib. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A carrier pigeon on a passage can achieve a high rate of speed, and Winn reefed again. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We had been under lower-topsails and a reefed foresail all night. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The main action starts when news reaches Logan that one of the Cusack family from the Northside Rises has been "reefed" in Smoketown. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The public space is a six-floor-high atrium that occupies the center of the building, with a gigantic metal-fabric drapery, which I thought of as a loosely reefed sail. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Then, in desperation, I abandoned the attempt to reef the mainsail and resolved to try the experiment of heaving to under the close-reefed foresail. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He's the skipper that lies three days under double-reefed topsails waiting for a gale that doesn't come. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It was no child's play to steer a vessel under single-reefed jib before a typhoon. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Two hours of terrible work followed, in which all hands of us — two hunters, three sailors, Wolf Larsen and I — reefed, first one and then the other, the jib and mainsail. ❋ Unknown (2010)

People get reefed rather than shot, and listen to music on wind-up radios. ❋ Unknown (2011)

We must have been caught nearly at the centre of this circular storm, and Wolf Larsen ran out of it and to the southward, first under a double-reefed jib, and finally under bare poles. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When young Winn reefed down so suddenly, he received a surprise. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Hidden by them, he sat up and reefed the sail, then looked back for the last time at the perimeter of the lagoon. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He reefed hastily to the uttermost, and at the same time depressed the angle of his flight to meet that upward surge. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But this time he quickly shook out a portion of his reefed sustaining surface and slowed down in time. ❋ Unknown (2010)

At last, hoisting the reefed main-sail and slacking off a few of the hard-won feet of the chain, we sailed the anchor out. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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