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单词 balance-reef
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balance-reef
balance-reef n. the closest reef of a lower fore-and-aft sail, making it nearly triangular, used to steady the ship in stormy weather.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > portion which may be reefed
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1782 P. M. Freneau Misc. Wks. (1788) 387 What he calls single, double, and balance-reef eyelet holes.
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 86 Balance-reef, a reef-band that crosses a sail diagonally, and is used to contract it in a storm.
1840 J. F. Cooper Pathfinder II. v. 184 By half-past two he had put a balance-reef in the sail.
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