reef
reef
subs.
P. and V. ἕρμᾰ, τό, V. χοιρά̆ς, ἡ.
Reefing rope: P. and V. κά̆λως, ὁ.
subs.
P. and V. ἕρμᾰ, τό, V. χοιρά̆ς, ἡ.
Reefing rope: P. and V. κά̆λως, ὁ.
reef
v. trans.
Ar. συστέλλειν, V. στέλλειν, κᾰθῑέναι; see lower.
v. trans.
Ar. συστέλλειν, V. στέλλειν, κᾰθῑέναι; see lower.
REEF
s. (of rocks) cautes (plur.).
s. (of rocks) cautes (plur.).
v. (a sail) velum (vela) subducere (Auct. Bell. Alex.); vela contrahere etc. (Cic.); velum subnectere antennis (Ov.); velum legere (Verg.).
reef (subs.):
I. A row of rocks:
1. taenia (a band): many r.s in the foaming water, frequentes t. candicantis vadi, Plin. 3, prooem., § 4: hence the adj. taeniensis: a race of fish that haunts the r.s, t. genus piscium, id 9] 37, 61.
2. expr. more indef. by saxa, scopuli, etc.: he stuck on a projecting r. of rocks, saxis in procurrentibus haesit, Virg. Aen. 5, 204: a vast r. of rocks on the surface of the sea, dorsum immane mari summo, id. ib. 1, 110.
II. Part of a sail: no exact word: perh. expr. by *pars veli, cf. Sen. Ep. 77, 2.
I. A row of rocks:
1. taenia (a band): many r.s in the foaming water, frequentes t. candicantis vadi, Plin. 3, prooem., § 4: hence the adj. taeniensis: a race of fish that haunts the r.s, t. genus piscium, id 9] 37, 61.
2. expr. more indef. by saxa, scopuli, etc.: he stuck on a projecting r. of rocks, saxis in procurrentibus haesit, Virg. Aen. 5, 204: a vast r. of rocks on the surface of the sea, dorsum immane mari summo, id. ib. 1, 110.
II. Part of a sail: no exact word: perh. expr. by *pars veli, cf. Sen. Ep. 77, 2.
reef (v.): no exact equivalent: to r. a sail, *partem veli stringere (cf. Sen. Ben. 6, 15, 6): more indef., contrahere vela, Hor. Od. 2, 10, 24; Ov.; subducere, Curt. 9, 4, 10.