Definitions for Reef

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Reef reef

Spelling: [reef]

IPA: /rif/

Reef is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 20 anagrams from letters in Reef (eefr).

Definitions for Reef

noun

1. a ridge of rocks or sand, often of coral debris, at or near the surface of the water.
2. Mining. a lode or vein.
3. a part of a sail that is rolled and tied down to reduce the area exposed to the wind.

verb (used with object)

1. to shorten (sail) by tying in one or more reefs.
2. to reduce the length of (a topmast, a bowsprit, etc.), as by lowering, sliding inboard, or the like.
3. to pull (old oakum) out of seams, as with a rave hook (often followed by out).

Origin of Reef

1575-85; earlier riff(e) Dutch rif

Examples for Reef

I said, standing on the steps like a captain ordering his men to take in a reef.

But Searle and other native Gibraltarians say the move to build the reef was about much more than the fishing population.

The reef has lost more than half its coral cover since 1985, with two-thirds of the loss occurring after 1998.

The helm was attended to, and the boat drew slowly from the reef and ahead.

I might even sweep the reef, on an emergency, by using old iron for shot!

It also takes place near a minefield of rocks, is a hangout spot for sharks, and breaks on a reef.

And this in turn affects the fish, whales, dolphins, turtles, dugongs and seabirds that live within the reef.

"This is a part of the reef, then, that is never covered," said he.

Before the war I was a short-order cook in Zabadani, which is a beautiful tourist valley in reef Damashq, near Lebanon.

He had himself been obliged to bail out three times, running in from the reef.