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Finisterre's No. 2 Genoa blew out, but the crew replaced it and bore down while bigger yachts were reefing cautiously.

From Time Magazine Archive

Two hours afterward, on San Pablo Bay, the wind was piping up and we were reefing down. 

From A Collection of Stories by London, Jack

It soon freshened, and by two o'clock in the morning the noise of the flapping sails, as the men were reefing them, and of the wind roaring through the rigging, was deafening.

From A First Year in Canterbury Settlement by Butler, Samuel