reef

4 letters in word "reef": E E F R.

Anagrams of reef:

• feer

• fere

• free

Words found within reef:

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• Definitions:
• lower and bring partially inboard; "reef the sailboat's mast" roll up (a portion of a sail) in order to reduce its area a submerged ridge of rock or coral near the surface of the water Witwatersrand: a rocky region in the southern Transvaal in northeastern South Africa; contains rich gold deposits and coal and manganese reduce (a sail) by taking in a reef
• In nautical terminology, a reef is a rock, sandbar, or other feature lying beneath the surface of the water yet shallow enough to be a hazard to ships. ...
• Reefing is a sailing manoeuvre intended to reduce the area of a sail on a sailboat or sailing ship, to improve the ship's stability and reduce the risk of capsizing, broaching or damaging sails or boat hardware in a strong wind. ...
• Reef are an English rock band from Butleigh, near Glastonbury. The band members include Gary Stringer on vocals, Kenwyn House on guitar, Jack Bessant on bass and Dominic Greensmith on drums.
• 1. Reef: To temporarily reduce the area of a sail exposed to the wind, usually to guard against adverse effects of strong wind or to slow the vessel. 2. Reef: Rock or coral, possibly only revealed at low tide, shallow enough that the vessel will at least touch if not go aground.
• To shorten sail, usually by partially lowering it and tying it off with reefing lines.
• (1) To partially lower a sail so that it is not as large. This helps prevent too much sail from being in use when the wind gets stronger.
• a gold-bearing quartz vein.
• chain or string of coral, oysters, rocks or other hard substrate
• A solid structure built of shells and other secretions of marine organisms, particularly coral.
• 1) "A part of the sail that can be taken in, rolled up and secured by reef-points." (Uden & Cooper) 2) To lower or lift that part of the sail part way and then secure it as described. This is used to decrease the amount of sail that the wind affects. ...
• (reef) (r?f) an infolding or tuck of tissue, as a tuck made in plication.
• An underwater structure; something that extends up from the seafloor but does not rise above the surface of the water like an island. Coral reefs are formed from the hard skeletons of coral. There are also rocky reefs, which are piles of rock under water.
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• A rock mass (often coral) which lies at or near the water surface.
• i) A ridge of rock or coral etc., at or near the surface of the sea, ii) each of several strips across a sail, for taking it in or rolling it up to reduce the surface area in a high wind, iii) take in a reef or reefs of (a sail), iv) shorten (a topmast or a bowsprit).
• To reduce the area of sail exposed to the wind. The portion of sail taken in, as in "we took in a reef when the wind rose". Small lines called reef points are used to tie up a potion of the sail in a bundle to reduce its area.
• To take in or lessen the area of a sail without furling it.
• to reduce the sail area when the wind speed increases.
• area composed of coral and other associated animals located in shallow, clean, warm, marine water
• rock found above or below sea level in shallow coastal waters (P)
• an organic, wave resistant, shallow-water structure.
• A strip or ridge of rocks, sand, or coral that rises to or near the surface of a body of water.
• An ecosystem that sustains marine life.
• A long wall of coral skeletons, growing in warm, shallow waters.
• A type of reservoir trap composed of rocks, usually limestone, made up of the skeletal remains of marine animals. Reef reservoirs are often characterized by high initial production that falls off rapidly, requiring pressure maintenance techniques to sustain production.
• A geologically discrete horizon where PGM mineralization is concentrated.
• Part of a sail from one row of eyelet-holes to another. It is applied likewise to a chain of rocks lying near the surface of the water.
• To take in or lessen the area of a sail without furling it. Depending on the location of the sail and time-period, sails could be single-reefed, double-reefed, treble-reefed or close-reefed, the last indicating that all the reefs had been taken in and the minimum surface area was exposed. ***

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