Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Marked by reefs or rocks, as the entrance to a harbor; characterized by reefs, as a coast.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Full of reefs or rocks.
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- adjective containing
reefs .
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- adjective full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Three years ago the shattered hull of your ship was sighted off a reefy coast, and you were heard of on the Main no more."
The Conquering Sword Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005
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"Three years ago the shattered hull of your ship was sighted off a reefy coast, and you were heard of on the Main no more."
The Conquering Sword of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005
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Every ebb leaves a sandy flat, extending half a mile seaward from the town; the reefy anchorage is difficult of entrance after sunset, and the coralline bottom renders wading painful.
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` Three years ago the shattered hull of your ship was sighted off a reefy coast, and you were heard of on the Main no more. '
The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989
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Vegetative propagation of Eucheuma on nets in the Philippines occurs on reefy flats with good water circulation.
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I sit up to see myself safe through the narrow passage between Flat Island and Round Island, and fall asleep at last to the monotonous chant of so many "fathoms and no bottom," for we take soundings every five minutes or so in this reefy region.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Various
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Then the water clears and his sails swing to the wind, and he is off to the north, along that steel-gray shore of rampart rock, between the white-slab islands and the reefy coast.
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Every ebb leaves a sandy flat, extending half a mile seaward from the town; the reefy anchorage is difficult of entrance after sunset, and the coralline bottom renders wading painful.
First Footsteps in East Africa Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Where slumber'd the dead like the coral-builders in reefy cell.
Man of Uz, and Other Poems Lydia Howard Sigourney 1828
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Good skippy have been taken on reefy areas eight miles offshore and schools of samson fish in 30-40m off Mindarie.
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