Definition of reef

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Reef (v. t.) To reduce the extent of (as a sail) by roiling or folding a certain portion of it and making it fast to the yard or spar.

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Treble :: Treble (v. i.) To become threefold.
Tern :: Tern (a.) Threefold; triple; consisting of three; ternate.
Porites :: Porites (n.) An important genus of reef-building corals having small twelve-rayed calicles, and a very porous coral. Some species are branched, others grow in large massive or globular forms..
Tridacna :: Tridacna (n.) A genus of very large marine bivalve shells found on the coral reefs of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. One species (T. gigas) often weighs four or five hundred pounds, and is sometimes used for baptismal fonts. Called also paw shell, and fountain shell..
Triformity :: Triformity (n.) The state of being triform, or of having a threefold shape..
Reefed :: Reefed (imp. & p. p.) of Ree.
Triple :: Triple (a.) To make threefold, or thrice as much or as many; to treble; as, to triple the tax on coffee..
Atoll :: Atoll (n.) A coral island or islands, consisting of a belt of coral reef, partly submerged, surrounding a central lagoon or depression; a lagoon island..
Balancereef :: Balancereef (n.) The last reef in a fore-and-aft sail, taken to steady the ship..
Xerif :: Xerif (n.) A shereef.
Preef :: Preef (n.) Proof.
Treeful :: Treeful (n.) The quantity or number which fills a tree.
Earing :: Earing (n.) A line for hauling the reef cringle to the yard; -- also called reef earing.
Closereefed :: Closereefed (a.) Having all the reefs taken in; -- said of a sail.
Triplicity :: Triplicity (a.) The quality or state of being triple, or threefold; trebleness..
Trigeminous :: Trigeminous (a.) Born three together; being one of three born at the same birth; also, threefold..
Three-ply :: Three-ply (a.) Consisting of three distinct webs inwrought together in weaving, as cloth or carpeting; having three strands; threefold..
Threefold :: Threefold (a.) Consisting of three, or thrice repeated; triple; as, threefold justice..
Footrope :: Footrope (n.) The rope rigged below a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling; -- formerly called a horse..
Reefing :: Reefing (n.) The process of taking in a reef.
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