reef-earings

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• earings

  Certain small ropes employed to fasten the upper corners of a sail to its yard, for which purpose on...

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• Reef

  ·noun A large vein of auriferous quartz; — so called in Australia. Hence, any body of rock yielding...

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• reef

  I. n. term in gold-mining; a vein ofauriferous quartz. Called by the Californian miners a vein, or...

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• reef

  A certain portion of a sail comprehended between the head of a sail and any of the reef-bands. The i...

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• head-earings

  The laniards to haul out the earings. (See earings.) ...

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• Reef-band

  ·noun A piece of canvas sewed across a sail to strengthen it in the part where the eyelet holes for ...

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• bag-reef

  A fourth or lower reef of fore-and-aft sails, often used in the royal navy. ♦ Bag-reef of top-sail...

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• balance-reef

  A reef-band that crosses a sail from the outer head-earing to the tack diagonally, making it nearly ...

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• reef-band

  A narrow band of canvas sewed on the reef-line to support the strain of the reef-points. It is pierc...

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• reef-cringles

  See cringle. ...

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• reef-knot

  Is one in which the ends fall always in a line with the outer parts; in fact, two loops, easy to unt...

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• reef-line

  Casual aids in bad weather to help the men at the earings. When the vessel was going free, and the s...

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• reef-pendant

  A rope going through a cringle in the after-leech of a boom main-sail, and through a check sheave-ho...

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• reef-points

  Small flat pieces of plaited cordage or soft rope, tapering from the middle towards each end, whose ...

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• reef-tackles

  , are indeed pendants and tackles. The pendant is rove through the sister-block, then a sheave in th...

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• shore reef

  The same as fringing reef. ...

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• spanish reef

  The yards lowered on the cap. Also, a knot tied in the head of the jib. ...

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• reef-tackle span

  Two cringles in the bolt-rope, about a couple of feet apart, when a block is used. ...

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• hands reef top-sails!

  The order to reef by all hands, instead of the watch, or watch and idlers. ...

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• shake out, a reef, to

  See let out, a reef, to ...

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• let out, a reef, to

  , or shake out, a reef, to To increase the dimensions of a sail, by untying the points confining a...

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