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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
reef .
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Examples
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The main action starts when news reaches Logan that one of the Cusack family from the Northside Rises has been "reefed" in Smoketown.
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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.
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A carrier pigeon on a passage can achieve a high rate of speed, and Winn reefed again.
Winged Blackmail 2010
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People get reefed rather than shot, and listen to music on wind-up radios.
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He's the skipper that lies three days under double-reefed topsails waiting for a gale that doesn't come.
Chapter 19 2010
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When young Winn reefed down so suddenly, he received a surprise.
Winged Blackmail 2010
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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.
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Hidden by them, he sat up and reefed the sail, then looked back for the last time at the perimeter of the lagoon.
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He reefed hastily to the uttermost, and at the same time depressed the angle of his flight to meet that upward surge.
Winged Blackmail 2010
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But this time he quickly shook out a portion of his reefed sustaining surface and slowed down in time.
Winged Blackmail 2010
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