Meanings of reefed mainsail in English

This we did by setting our reefed mainsail, foresail, and Number 2 jib.

Don't you cal'late we can beat down there under a reefed mainsail and jib?

Ship under reefed mainsail, staysail, and inner jib.

Under a close- reefed mainsail and storm-jib, the little vessel continued her course, looking bravely up to the increasing gale.

At last, hoisting the reefed mainsail and slacking off a few of the hard-won feet of the chain, we sailed the anchor out.

About eight o'clock a slight breeze sprung up from the westward, and the vessel was standing under reefed mainsail, whole foresail, and topsail, and jib.

Less than a mile from the shore a small brigantine, stripped to a lower topsail, storm-jib, and balance- reefed mainsail, was trying to claw off shore.

The wind freshened to a gale, and we made twelve knots an hour under double reefed mainsails and topsails.