close-reefed

adj

close-reefed

adj

Etymology From close + reefed.

1

Nautical, Transport Of a sail, fully reefed; using all the reefs.

About noon we saw a vessel on a wind to leeward of us, which was a source of great delight to us all, and we bore down to her. We soon made her out to be an hermaphrodite brig, under her close-reefed topsails and trysails.1846, Frederick Marryat, The Privateersman:

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.