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the reefer
noun
Someone who reefs sails, especially a midshipman.
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The reefer hatch was lifted.
We half sat, half reclined on the reefer floor.
Shit, they'd tell him there was six in the reefer".
She owned her own tractor in the reefer trade, and it had a crumpled fender.
Down he came to the reefer bottom — woefully underclad, only a jacket over his shirt.
In a sense, "Mary Poppins" is an anti-nanny propaganda film, the "Reefer Madness" of the working-mother set.
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In their exasperated, half-baked (or, in the reefer-mad Kumar's case, fully baked) way, these representative men mock all sides.
The state's Department of Revenue has spent months conceiving rules for this new industry, ending the reefer-madness phase here in favor of buzz-killing specifics about cultivation, distribution, storage and every other part of the business.
They wouldn't let him into any of the reefers.
Why not?" "If he was closin' up the reefers, we'da heard them other hatches slam".
With the reefers spending months and sometimes years at sea, and solely reliant on trans-shipments every 90 days to receive food supplies, fishermen have been exposed to beriberi, a preventable disease caused by vitamin B1 deficiency that was common in the 19th century.
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