Crossword clues for reefed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reef \Reef\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reefed (r[=e]ft); p. pr. &
vb. n. Reefing.] (Naut.)
To reduce the extent of (as a sail) by rolling or folding a
certain portion of it and making it fast to the yard or spar.
--Totten.
To reef the paddles, to move the floats of a paddle wheel toward its center so that they will not dip so deeply.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: reef)
Usage examples of "reefed".
The canvas was taken in, until the ship was under closely reefed topsails.
The skipper had managed to get a star reading the night before so the ship was now under reefed sails, scudding southward over the tossing sea.
North Gate, than the cutter, having both sails set, though reefed, lay down very much, and her hull kept disappearing.
With the south-east wind now astern she was transformed, lighter and more limber, even with sails reefed and with three feet of water in her bilges.
Under top sails only, and with all else reefed, the two ships were now converging, both running westward towards the Cape of Good Hope and the Atlantic.
Dicky was long past his glory days when he had been the man to beat to the masthead when they reefed sail in a full gale.
Llewellyn threw back his head and gazed up the main, mast at the tiny figures that spread out along the high yard and wrestled with the reefed canvas.