snug down

verb

verb

To secure a ship or equipment on a ship, such as in preparation for a storm.

Quickly snug everything down before the storm gets here.
"What is the use of running off-shore?" I said to Margaret, when the kites were snugged down and all yards trimmed on the wind. "Three hundred and fifty miles off the land is as good as thirty-five hundred so far as starvation is concerned."1914, Jack London, The Mutiny of the Elsinore, Chapter XLVI:

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