reefer

[Eng. reef, v.; -er.] 1. One who reefs sails; spec if., applied to midshipmen, because they attended in the tops during the operation of reefing. ( Smyth.) 2. A reefing-jacket (q. v.). reef-ing, pr.par.ora. [REEF, v.] reefing-jacket, s. of strong heavy cloth. Naut.: A close-fitting jacket or short coat made reef-ý, a. [Eng. reef (1), s.; y.) Full of, or abounding in reefs or rocks; as, a reefy coast. reek (1), *reke, subst . [A. S. réc ; cogn. with O. Fris. rek ; Icel. reykr ; Dut. & Low Ger. rook ; Dan. rog ; Sw. rok ; Ger. rauch ; Lith. rukis smoke; Icel. rök , rökr =vapor.] Smoke, vapor, steam, exhalation, fume. "For the very blue reek that came out of the lumhead put me in mind of the change."-Scott: Heart of Mid loth i an, ch. xxvii. reěk (2), s. [A.S.hreác.] A rick of hay, . "The covered reck , much in use westward, must needs prove of great advantage in wet harvests." -Mortimer: Husbandry. wound in again as his struggles become le violent, bringing him to land or to the landing-net. (3) Baking : A cylinder with radial arms rotating in a heated chamber, carrying pans in which loaves of bread are placed for baking in the reel-oven. (4) Cotton - machinery : A machine on which cotton is wound, making hanks of thread, each 840 yards in length. (5) Domestic: A spool or bobbin of wood on which cotton, thread, silk, ., is wound for use in sewing. (6) Milling : The barrel or drum on which the bolting cloth is fastened. (7) Naut .: A revolving frame to hold a line or cord, as: (a) The log-reel: (6) the deep sea-reel; and (c) the spun-yarn-reel, . (8) Rope - making : Spun-yarns are wound on a reel preparatory to tarring or laying up into strands as the twisting of each length is completed. (9) Silk : The revolving frame on which silk is wound from the cocoons, or yarn is wound off from the spindle of a hand-spinning machine, and reeled into cuts or hanks. (10) Teleg .: A barrel on which the strip of paper for receiving the me age is wound in a recording telegraph. 2. A stagger, or staggering motion, like that of a drunken man. Off the reel: One after another without a break; in uninterrupted succe ion. "Winning three nurseries off the reel."-London Daily Telegraph.