reefing

Meaning of reefing

verb
  1. To take in part of a sail in order to adapt the size of the sail to the force of the wind.
  2. To pull or yank strongly, especially in relation to horse riding.
  3. (of paddles) To move the floats of a paddle wheel toward its center so that they will not dip so deeply.
    Reef the paddles.
noun
  1. The process of reefing (taking in a sail); an act of reefing; also used of clothing.
  2. A reef (seam of quartz).

Information about reefing

  • The plural form of reefing is: reefings.
  • Languages ​​in which reefing is used:

    (Press the button to hear it)

Hyphenation of reefing

reef-ing

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • reefing is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Anagrams of reefing

feering, feigner, freeing, refeign

Words that rhyme with reefing

chafing, disleafing, enchafing, leafing, loafing, nonchafing, overchafing, safing, sheafing, strafing, undeafing, unloafing, vouchsafing, voutsafing, beefing, briefing, debriefing, kerchiefing, mischiefing, affing, baffing, bepuffing, biffing, bluffing, boffing, buffing, chaffing, chauffing, cheffing, chuffing, cliffing, coffing, coiffing, counterbuffing, crossruffing, cuffing, daffing, destuffing, doffing, duffing, effing, enfeoffing, engraffing, faffing, feoffing, fisticuffing, flaffing, fluffing, fuffing, gaffing

Are you looking more rhymes for reefing? Try our rhymes search engine.