Crossword-Solution: REEFED 6 letters, 12 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Never to reef down was his mania, and in all the time I spent with him, blow high or low, the Reindeer was never reefed.

Now off with it, and lave me alone till I stitch the tags to it.” It was the mixture of a skirt and the idea of a sail, for it had two rows of reef points; a most ingenious idea, as it could be reefed if the child wanted to go paddling, or in windy weather.

They dipped and scurried and rocked, and you could see the sails being reefed hurriedly, and almost hear the rigging creak and moan under the strain.

They had rudders for guiding and brakes for arresting their progress and were of all sizes and kinds, from small, rough affairs managed by a boy, to large and beautiful ones filled with gay pleasure parties and manned by competent sailors, who, smoking their stumpy pipes, reefed and tacked and steered with great solemnity and precision.

The small sail was double-reefed, yet the boat careened so heavily that the water broke over the gunwale.