- Look up
reefing in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Reefing reduces the area of a sail,
usually by
folding or
rolling one edge of the
canvas in on itself...
- A
reef is a
ridge or
shoal of rock, coral, or
similar relatively stable material lying beneath the
surface of a
natural body of water. Many
reefs result...
- A
coral reef is an
underwater ecosystem characterized by
reef-building corals.
Reefs are
formed of
colonies of
coral polyps held
together by
calcium carbonate...
- The
Great Barrier Reef is the world's
largest coral reef system,
composed of over 2,900
individual reefs and 900
islands stretching for over 2,300 kilometres...
-
novel written by
Romesh Gunesekera Reef (company), an
American apparel and shoe
company Reef knot, a kind of knot
Reefing, an
action performed on
sails to...
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scarp in
South Africa Great Barrier Reef or "The
Reef", the planet's
largest coral reef The
Reef or The
Reefs, a
former mansion in Newport,
Rhode Island, in...
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universally used for parcels,
rolls and bundles. At sea it is
always emplo**** in
reefing and
furling sails and
stopping clothes for drying. But
under no cir****stances...
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attach sails to spars; and
reefing features,
which may
include reefing lines attached to the sail or
grommets that have
reefing lines running through them...
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island subsides, the
coral fringing reef becomes a
barrier reef that is
detached from the island. Eventually,
reef and the
small coral islets on top of...
- operation, the mill must be
stopped in
order to
adjust the
reefing of the sail. Open
Roller reefing sails were
invented by
Stephen Hooper in 1789. As with...
