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Reefed

adj, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Having part of a sail tied up in order to adapt the size of the sail to the force of the wind.

    "The mainsail was "scandalised" - a nautical mode of describing a sail reefed at both ends[.]"

  2. 2
    Semi-deployed, with the canopy initially restricted from fully opening, in order to avoid subjecting the canopy to excessive air loads or the payload to excessive g-forces from fully deploying at high airspeed.
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of reef form-of, participle, past

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