reefing bowsprit
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English
Noun
reefing bowsprit (plural reefing bowsprits)
- (nautical) A bowsprit rigged so that it can be easily run in, or shortened by sliding inboard. It was popular with cutters.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “reefing bowsprit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)