close-reefed

English

Alternative forms

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.

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