reef-band

• reefband

reef-band (plural reef-bands)

1. (nautical) A piece of canvas sewn across a sail to strengthen it in the part where the eyelet holes for reefing are made.
   • 1846, “Improvements in Ships”, in Boston Journal:

     The rope passed from below up through a sister-block in the rigging at the topmast-head, thence through the end of the yard to a block in the reef-band of the sail, &c.

• “reef-band”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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