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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Balance-reef

Băl'ance-reef, n.

noun

n. (Naut.) A reef-band that crosses a sail diagonally, used to contract it in a storm.

Bāl'ance-reef, v. t.

verbtransitive

To reduce a sail to its last reef. Totten.