"reefage" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: From reef + -age. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|reef|age}} reef + -age Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} reefage (uncountable)
  1. A reef-like quality; danger or difficulty that is hidden or submerged. Tags: uncountable
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          "ref": "1919, David Smith Cairns, The Army and Religion:",
          "text": "From a chaplain with a Highland regiment : “The men are inclined to think that the Churches have been kindly but too much addicted to form and ritual, ornamental “fiddle-faddle, with too little concentration on bold and insistent facing of social questions, moral reefage and wreckage, brotherhood and brotherliness. Humanity, optimism, knowledge of social conditions, capacity and insight, rather than formality and class separateness, are what they will demand from the Church on the day of the returning.\"",
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          "ref": "1990, A. M. Klein, Zailig Pollock, Complete Poems - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 575:",
          "text": "Near waterfront, a stone's throw from the slums It lifts, above its wreckage, three gold buoys Yet to its reefage tattoo'd flotsam comes Dropping their snared bags of exotic toys.",
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