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The Wellington came bowling along under close-reefed topsails.
Soon there struggled in the narrow mouth the shadow of a close-reefed trawler of sixty tons or so.
They were both reefed down to the balance-reef, as shown in the illustration taken from an old print.
By night the gale had sufficiently abated to enable me to set a reefed foresail, and once more to haul up on my course.
She don't need much of anything on her except a double-reefed mitten with the thumb brailed up.
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On this page you'll find 20 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to reefed, such as: grounded, marooned, stranded, wrecked, and cast away.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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