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REEFING
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REEF-TACKLE
REEF-TACKLE, a rope which passes from the deck to a block at the topmast-head, and thence to another block at the topsail-yard-arm, where it communicates with another rope, called its pendent, that runs downwards through a hole in the yard, and is afterwards attached to a cringle, a little below the lowelt reef, as exhibited by fig. I plate IX. where b is the reef-tackle, and i the pendent thereof. It is used, as we have already observed, to pull the skirts of the reefs close up to the extremities of the topsail-yards, in order to lighten the sail, the weight of which would otherwise render it very difficult to perform this operation.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 240, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/1052.html