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.

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  • adjective nautical, of a sail Having all the reefs taken in.

Etymologies

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close +‎ reefed

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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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