Burns. Song.
Ratch, C, to search vigorously, to ransack.
“Ratch as ye will, ye’ll mak nowte out.”
Said to hunters in a wood.
Reek, S, smoke.
“The death o’ deevils, smoor’d in brimstone reek.”
Burns. The Twa Brigs.
Riggin’, S, the roof (probably from Ridging primarily).
“Ane may like the kirk weel aneuch without aye riding on the riggin’ o’ ’t.”—Proverb.
Rooers, C, (or rather Furness and Westmorland) oars.