Usually means: Reducing sail area in wind.
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  1. reefing: Merriam-Webster
  2. reefing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. reefing: Vocabulary.com
  4. reefing: Wordnik
  5. reefing: Wiktionary
  6. Reefing, reefing: Dictionary.com
  7. Reefing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Reefing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. reefing: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Reefing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. reefing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. reefing: FreeDictionary.org
  13. Reefing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. reefing: Encyclopedia

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  2. reefing: Medical dictionary

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  1. reefing: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Reefing: Sports Definitions

(Note: See reef as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (reefing)

noun:  The process of reefing (taking in a sail); an act of reefing; also used of clothing.
noun:  (Australia, New Zealand) A reef (seam of quartz).

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