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How to use close-reefed in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word close-reefed? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
If the close-reefed foretopsail is carried instead of the main, it can be easily filled.
Examples from Classical Literature
The close-reefed mainsail was hoisted, and the Skylark went off on her course.
A few of the smaller sails only were left exposed, and even these were close-reefed.
Came on board to-night when we close-reefed topsails durin a squall.
Hoop skirts are close-reefed, and tilters are on their last leggs.
The bay now lay before him, dotted here and there by close-reefed sails.
We soon made her out to be an hermaphrodite brig, under her close-reefed topsails and trysails.
We next tried the fore-topsail, close-reefed, and this stood.
The Lady Nepean hurled her old timbers along under close-reefed maintopsail, and a rag of a foresail only.
It was wonderful how we danced over the waves with close-reefed canvas.
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