Word Meanings - BALANCEREEF - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The last reef in a fore-and-aft sail, taken to steady the ship.

Related words: (words related to BALANCEREEF)

• STEADY
  stedig sterile, barren, stæ, steady , D. stedig, stadig, 1. Firm in standing or position; not tottering or shaking; fixed; firm. "The softest, steadiest plume." Keble. Their feet steady, their hands diligent, their eyes watchful, and their hearts
• TAKEN
  p. p. of Take.
• MISTAKEN
  1. Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken. 2. Erroneous; wrong; as, a mistaken notion.
• OUTTAKEN
  or prep. Excepted; save. Wyclif. Chaucer.
• LAND OF STEADY HABITS
  Connecticut; -- a nickname alluding to the moral character of its inhabitants, implied by the rigid laws of the early period.
• MISTAKENLY
  By mistake. Goldsmith.
• MISTAKENNESS
  Erroneousness.