Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the last reef taken in: noting the condition of a vessel when there are no more reefs left to be taken in the sails.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Naut.) Having all the reefs taken in; -- said of a sail.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective nautical, of a sail Having all the
reefs taken in.
Etymologies
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close + reefed
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Examples
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Mother and I had not spread much sail to our temporary gust of prosperity; and when the storm began to gather, she straightway closereefed.
The Plum Tree David Graham Phillips 1889
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Having called all hands, we closereefed the topsails and trysail, furled the courses and jib, set the fore-topmast staysail, and brought her up nearly to her course, with the weather braces hauled in a little, to ease her.
Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after: a personal narrative 1869
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