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Definition of Reefings
1. reefing [n] - See also: reefing
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reefings
Literary usage of Reefings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Aeschylus by Aeschylus, Frederick Apthorp Paley (1871)
"It is too well marked to escape my notice: there are the reefings of the sails
and the side-guards of the ship, and the prow, seeing its course before it ..."
2. Household Papers and Stories by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896)
"As matters were, our three girls never could be in our kitchen at one time without
reefings and ..."
3. Life in Victoria: Or, Victoria in 1853, and Victoria in 1858, Showing the by William Kelly (1859)
"... quartz reefings. But, over and above those persuasive considerations, there
was another fully as potential as either, or perhaps as both combined, ..."
4. The Dorp and the Veld: Or, Six Months in Natal by Charles Barter (1852)
"... and reefings, of setting and taking in of sails, and many other manoeuvres
which, though painfully interesting at the time, require the pen of a Marryat ..."
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