closereefedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From close +‎ reefed.

形容詞

close-reefed (not comparable)

1. (nautical) Of a sail, fully reefed; using all the reefs.
   • 1846, Frederick Marryat, The Privateersman:

     About noon we saw a vessel on a wind to leeward of us, which was a source of great delight to us all, and we bore down to her. We soon made her out to be an hermaphrodite brig, under her close-reefed topsails and trysails.

動詞

close-reefed

1. simple past and past participle of close-reef

参照

• “closereefed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.