reef-tackle
English
Noun
reef-tackle (plural reef-tackles)
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{{rfdef}}.- 1840, [Richard Henry Dana Jr.], “Chapter XXXV”, in Two Years before the Mast. […] (Harper’s Family Library; no. 106), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], OCLC 191240091:
- topsail yards down upon the caps, and sails flapping and beating against the masts; and starboard watch hauling out the reef-tackles of the main topsail.
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