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reefing, vbl. n.1 Naut.|ˈriːfɪŋ|
[f. reef v.1 + -ing1.]
a. The action of reef v.1
1750T. R. Blanckley Nav. Expos. 129 This contracting or taking up the Sail they call Reefing. 1758J. Blake Plan Mar. Syst. 7 Exercising those who are received into the service..in handing and reefing of sails. 1829Marryat F. Mildmay viii, Many a sail is split by bad reefing. 1862Catal. Internat. Exhib. II. xii. 6/1 The old defective and dangerous method of reefing by the men going aloft and out on the yards.
b. attrib., as reefing breeze, reefing gear, reefing hook, reefing point, reefing spindle, reefing topsail, reefing wheel; reefing-jacket, a particular form of close-fitting jacket made of stout heavy cloth.
1897Outing (U.S.) XXX. 362/2 The race was sailed with a *reefing breeze. 1956A. F. Loomis ‘Hotspur’ Story 118, I was sailing in a reefing breeze.
1911J. Barten Compl. Naut. Pocket Dict. 156/2 *Reefing gear, Mechanismus zum Segelreffen. 1961F. H. Burgess Dict. Sailing 169 Reefing gear, patent roller fittings used in some small sailing boats, to dispense with the use of reef points.
1860‘Vanderdecken’ Yarns 36 The topmast shrouds..should have..*reefing hooks and thimbles.
1882Ogilvie, *Reefing-jacket. 1894Idler Sept. 220 A reformed world, in which every man should..sit down in a reefing jacket to a dinner of pork and beans.
1856‘Stonehenge’ Brit. Rural Sports 461/1 Tying round the boom a corresponding line of the ‘*reefing points’,..hanging on the lower part of the mainsail.
1962Roving Commissions 1961 43 Mr ‘Christie’ Mahoney arranged for our *reefing spindle to be mended.
1878A. H. Markham Gt. Frozen Sea i. 3 Both ships were fitted with..patent *reefing and furling topsails.
1840Civil Engin. & Archit. Jrnl. III. 104/1 This vessel..has the *reefing wheels after Mr. Hall's patent. |