reefing bowsprit

English

Noun

reefing bowsprit (plural reefing bowsprits)

  1. (nautical) A bowsprit so rigged that it can easily be run in or shortened by sliding inboard, as in cutters.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 reefing bowsprit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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