reef-points

From on deck came the jar of sheet-blocks and the rat-tat-tat of the reef-points against the canvas.

A SON OF THE SUN 2010

Then the gag swung to the side with an abrupt swiftness, the great sail boomed like a cannon, and the three rows of reef-points slatted against the canvas like a volley of rifles.

Chapter 6 2010

There were swift commands on deck, a stamping of feet and a slapping of reef-points as the Ghost shot into the wind and about on the other tack.

Chapter 18 2010

Her headsails emptied, there was a rat-tat of reef-points and quick shifting of boom - tackles, and she was heeled over and filled away on the other tack.

THE PEARLS OF PARLAY 2010

There was a great fluttering and flapping of canvas and reef-points, most welcome to my ears, then she filled away on the other tack.

Chapter 39 2010

And what little there was, — the slapping of a few reef-points and the creaking of a sheave in a block or two, — was ghostly under the hollow echoing pall in which we were swathed.

Chapter 25 2010

I availed myself of the instantaneous silence that followed my act, and before the captain could think or speak, I leaped to the boom with my sharp knife, cutting the reef-points slowly and carefully, so as not to allow the foresail to be inflated and torn by a single blast.

Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

The cutter lay like a log on the water, the reef-points rattling on the main-sail like a shower of small shot; and, every time he heard the sound, the man at the helm would raise his eyes aloft, and, fixing them steadily on the gaff-topsail for a minute or two, turn round and scan the horizon; and then, walking to the quarter, moisten his forefinger in his mouth, and hold it above his head.

A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition William A. Ross

The wilderness of gold that was her uncared-for hair blew behind her like a sunny burgee; her sea-blue eyes were fixed on the mainsail, out of which she adroitly spilled the wind at the proper moment, in order that Donald and her father might haul the reef-points home and make them fast.

Kindred of the Dust 1918

From on deck came the jar of sheet-blocks and the rat-tat-tat of the reef-points against the canvas.

A Son of the Sun 1912