reefage

reefage noun: a reef-like quality; danger or difficulty that is hidden or submerged.

Noun

reefage (uncountable)

A reef-like quality; danger or difficulty that is hidden or submerged.
- Gracefully as it has steered past the rocks on which the older negationism split, it has failed to weather a fringe of sunken reefage beyond.1890, The Theosophist - Volume 11, page 353
- From a chaplain with a Highland regiment : “The men are inclined to think that the Churches have been kindly but too much addicted to form and ritual, ornamental “fiddle-faddle, with too little concentration on bold and insistent facing of social questions, moral reefage and wreckage, brotherhood...1919, David Smith Cairns, The Army and Religion

I was tossed in the delirium of the Great Change upon the reefage of this plane where, derelict to self-realization, I have found nothing of me to be dead except my belief in death.1936, The University Review - Volumes 3-4, page 120:
Near waterfront, a stone's throw from the slums It lifts, above its wreckage, three gold buoys Yet to its reefage tattoo'd flotsam comes Dropping their snared bags of exotic toys.1990, A. M. Klein, Zailig Pollock, Complete Poems - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 575:

From reef + -age.

What does reefage mean?: Reefage means a reef-like quality; danger or difficulty that is hidden or submerged.
How do you use reefage in a sentence?: I was tossed in the delirium of the Great Change upon the reefage of this plane where, derelict to self-realization, I have found nothing of me to be dead except my belief in death.
What part of speech is reefage?: Reefage is a noun.

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