"reefing" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1852, Charles Barter, The Dorp and the Veld: or, Six Months in Natal, page 248",
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          "ref": "1868 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, “Our Second Girl”, in Atlantic Monthly, volume 21, page 53",
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          "ref": "2005, John S. Bohne, In the Shadow of the Moon, page 28",
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          "ref": "1924, Newspaper Press Directory, page 387",
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          "ref": "1977, William Kelly, Life in Victoria: or, Victoria in 1853, and Victoria in 1858, page 218",
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