close-reefed

English

Alternative forms

• closereefed

Etymology

From close +‎ reefed.

Adjective

close-reefed (not comparable)

1. (nautical, of a sail) fully reefed; using all the reefs.
   • 1846, Frederick Marryat, The Privateersman:

     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.

References

• “closereefed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.