What is "reefer jacket"

Usage examples of "reefer jacket".

When he went on to the bridge he found Koenig leaning over the chart table, a large black-bearded seaman at the wheel who wore a faded reefer jacket that carried a chief petty officers rank badges.

The knife ripped my reefer jacket and I felt a thin graze-burn of pain.

As always, he wore a comfortable Expeditionary Officer's service uniform with none of his many decorations: brown street shoes, dark olive trousers, and a matching olive reefer jacket with an Imperial comet on the left breast and two rows of five brass buttons down the front.

Somebody - the girl probably, or that shambling giant of a man, who might well be the mate - had been on board and collected the old man's things, all except an aged reefer jacket hanging on the back of the door, salt marks white on the dark cloth and traces of mildew.

His reefer jacket fitted him faultlessly, but his trousers were cut so unfashionably narrow that the protuberant thigh muscles and the line of a highly developed calf could quite easily be discerned.

Farther south, he hoped his scuffed reefer jacket, corduroy trousers, boots, and forage cap, worn by so many German farm workers, would escape scrutiny.

He was a huge rock of a man dressed in a reefer jacket with a peaked cap that looked several sizes too small for him crammed on to his cannon-ball of a head.

She hadn't remarked on my evening wear the palatinate reefer jacket, the plump-winged bow-tie, the pink cummerbund that had taken my fancy, the lacquered spats so I assumed I looked the part.

Gornt wore rough, casual sea clothes, a light reefer jacket and a jaunty peaked cap sporting the Yacht Club emblem.

He habitually carried such reading matter rolled up in the side pocket of his reefer jacket which was now beside him on the sofa.

He had slung a reefer jacket, green with age and sea mould, over the dirty pyjama jacket and he stood there, huge in the half light of that sudden storm, sniffing the weather with his big nose, not saying a word, but by his mere presence giving support to the helmsman, a feeling of stability to the whole ship.

I wrenched the door open and raced through - into the bloody lavatory, and by the time I was out again it was too late: the biggest Malay I've ever seen, a huge yellow villain clad only in duck trowsers and with arms like hawsers, was at the foot of the companion, making way for John Charity Spring in full war-paint - reefer jacket, pilot cap, and a face like an Old Testament prophet.

A thick-shouldered man in a reefer jacket and woollen hat, his flat square face half buried in a scarf.

Tonight, he had dressed in the tan-and-crimson uniform of the Sodeskayan Surface Army with gold-trimmed peaked cap, gold-buttoned reefer jacket, white shirt, black tie, and black-leather ankle boots.

He wore an open Fleet Cloak over the standard Flag Officer's service dress: peaked cap with a double row of embroidered oak leaves, blue reefer jacket, and matching trousers with black boots.