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Examples
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Then, in desperation, I abandoned the attempt to reef the mainsail and resolved to try the experiment of heaving to under the close-reefed foresail.
Chapter 39 2010
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The noise which they made, though yet distant, reminded me of a hard gale at sea, passing through the rigging of a close-reefed vessel.
Archive 2007-09-01 Heather McDougal 2007
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The noise which they made, though yet distant, reminded me of a hard gale at sea, passing through the rigging of a close-reefed vessel.
The Song of the Passenger Pigeon Heather McDougal 2007
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Needs must I now, it seems, turn orator, and, like a good helmsman on a ship with close-reefed sails, weather that wearisome tongue of thine.
Medea 2008
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Needs must I now, it seems, turn orator, and, like a good helmsman on a ship with close-reefed sails, weather that wearisome tongue of thine.
Medea 2008
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The wind rose, and from a fresh breeze it soon increased to a regular gale; that is to say, it acquired a speed of from forty to forty-five miles an hour, before which a ship in the open sea would have run under close-reefed topsails.
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The sails were close-reefed, and they tacked frequently.
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The wind rose, and from a fresh breeze it soon increased to a regular gale; that is to say, it acquired a speed of from forty to forty-five miles an hour, before which a ship in the open sea would have run under close-reefed topsails.
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The sails were close-reefed, and they tacked frequently.
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After writing the last paragraph the wind fell light, then sprung up foul, and so we were slowly driven to the E.N.E. On Monday night it blew hard, and we had close-reefed topsails.
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