reef-band

English

Noun

reef-band (plural reef-bands)

  1. (nautical) A piece of canvas sewn across a sail to strengthen it in the part where the eyelet holes for reefing are made.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for reef-band in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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