reef
reef is a 4-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A chain or range of rocks lying at or near the surface of the water. See Coral reefs, under Coral. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A chain or range of rocks lying at or near the surface of the water. See Coral reefs, under Coral.
- noun. A large vein of auriferous quartz; -- so called in Australia. Hence, any body of rock yielding valuable ore.
- transitive verb. That part of a sail which is taken in or let out by means of the reef points, in order to adapt the size of the sail to the force of the wind.
- transitive verb. To reduce the extent of (as a sail) by roiling or folding a certain portion of it and making it fast to the yard or spar.
- noun. one of several strips across a sail that can be taken in or rolled up to lessen the area of the sail that is exposed to the wind
- noun. a rocky region in the southern Transvaal in northeastern South Africa; contains rich gold deposits and coal and manganese
- noun. a submerged ridge of rock or coral near the surface of the water
- verb. reduce (a sail) by taking in a reef
- verb. roll up (a portion of a sail) in order to reduce its area
- verb. lower and bring partially inboard
"reef the sailboat's mast"
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Common word forms
reefs, reefed, reefer, reefing, reefable
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