REEFING

Definitions: REEFING

REEFING

Noun

1. The process of taking in a reef.

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Reef

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "REEFING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Mining	Working auriferous reefs or veins. See:reef. (references)
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Crosswords: REEFING

English words defined with "REEFING": Footrope ♦ Reef points, Reef tackle, Reef-band, Reefing bowsprit ♦ To man a yard. (references)

Specialty definitions using "REEFING": disreef/reefed fill time ♦ reefed inlet area. (references)

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Reefing top sails, probably while in New York Harbor in the mid-1880s. The original print is a letterpress reproduction of a photograph by E.H. Hart, 1162 Broadway, New York City, published circa the 1880s by the Photo-Gravure Company, New York..Credit: NAVY.
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"REEFING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "REEFING" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	75%	6	143,867
Noun (common)	25%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	8	N/A

Expression using "REEFING": reefing bowsprit. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "REEFING": roller-reefing.
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Language		Translations for "REEFING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		rebning, hæmning (inhibition). (various references)

Dutch		reven. (various references)

Finnish		reivaus. (various references)

French		étranglement. (various references)

German		Reffung, Reffen (reef, shorten). (various references)

Greek		σειροδέτηση, μουδάρισμα, δίπλωμα (bending, degree, diploma, fold, folding). (various references)

Italian		primo svolgimento ristretto. (various references)

Pig Latin		eefingray

Portuguese		rizadura, enrizamento. (various references)

Spanish		rizado (chill mark, crimp, crimped, crimpling, crisp, curling, curly, flow line, friezing, frizzed, frizzly, frizzy, kinking, kinky, wrinkle, wrinkling). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"REEFING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Redfang, Redfin, reebing, reeding, reefings, reefong, reeming, reeping, Reffin, reffing, refig, refin, refrig, refying, rekeying, Riefling. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: feigner, freeing.
	Words within the letters "e-e-f-g-i-n-r"
	-1 letter: feeing, ferine, finger, fringe, refine.
	-2 letters: feign, finer, genie, genre, green, grief, infer, reign, renig.
	-3 letters: eger, erne, fere, fern, fine, fire, firn, free, frig, gene, gien, girn, gree, grin, neif, reef, reif, rein, rife, ring.
	-4 letters: eng, ere, erg, ern, fee, fen, fer, fie, fig, fin, fir, gee, gen, gie, gin, ire, nee, ree, ref, reg, rei, rif, rig, rin.
	-5 letters: ef, en, er, if, in, ne, re.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-f-g-i-n-r"
	+1 letter: befinger, befringe, feigners, fevering, fingered, fingerer, fleering, freezing.
	+2 letters: befingers, befringed, befringes, deferring, enserfing, farseeing, ferreling, ferreting, festering, fettering, fingerers, foreigner, redefying, refecting, refeeding, refeeling, refelling, refencing, referring, reflexing, refueling, telfering, unfreeing.
	+3 letters: befingered, befretting, centrifuge, debriefing, enfevering, feathering, federating, fermenting, ferrelling, ferretings, fingerlike, firefanged, fleeringly, forefinger, foreigners, foreseeing, freebasing, freezingly, freshening, frightened, gentrified, gentrifier, gentrifies, greenfield, greenfinch, greenflies, perfecting, preferring, redefining, reedifying, refereeing, reflecting, refreezing, refreshing, refuelling, reoffering, unfreezing.
	+4 letters: befingering, beflowering, befriending, centrifuged, centrifuges, debriefings, deflowering, deforesting, enfettering, esterifying, etherifying, farewelling, featherings, ferrimagnet, filagreeing, filigreeing, forefeeling, forefending, forefingers, foreignness, foretelling, forgiveness, fragmentize, freebooting, freelancing, freeloading, freewriting, frequenting, gentrifiers, interfering, nonfreezing, overfearing, overfeeding, predefining, prefreezing, reconfigure, redefeating, redefecting, reenforcing, refastening, referencing, refiltering, reflowering, reforesting, refrangible, refrigerant, reinfecting, reverifying, subfreezing, unfettering.
	+5 letters: anglerfishes, birefringent, conferencing, decertifying, differencing, effervescing, efflorescing, electrifying, federalizing, ferrimagnets, fingerpicked, forechecking, forereaching, forespeaking, foreswearing, foretokening, fragmentized, fragmentizes, freestanding, freethinking, freewheeling, freewritings, fricasseeing, frigidnesses, greenfinches, infringement, intergrafted, misreferring, presignified, presignifies, profiteering, recentrifuge, recertifying, reconfigured, reconfigures, refreshening, refreshingly, refrigerants, reliquefying, underfeeding, ungentrified.
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