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By that time I had reefed in my ruffles around my feet and pushed in all my hairpins.

From The Melting of Molly by Crosby, Raymond Moreau

We had reefed our sail to less than four feet, and I put an extra man with the steersman.

From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe

In the meantime the captain had reefed the mainsail down to the last row.

From The Meadow-Brook Girls by the Sea Or The Loss of The Lonesome Bar by Aldridge, Janet

To meet emergencies, and under the notion he should have his craft more under command, the young man had reefed his mainsail, and taken the bonnets off of the foresail and jib.

From Jack Tier by Cooper, James Fenimore