reefing

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The process of reefing (taking in a sail); an act of reefing; also used of clothing.

   “I will not detain the reader with the contents of our sea-log, which is full of tackings and reefings, of setting and taking in of sails, and many other manoeuvres[…].”

2. isim A reef (seam of quartz).

   “Alluvial goldfields and quartz reefings are in its vicinity, and good indications of coal.”

3. fiil present participle and gerund of reef