Reer. See Rare.
Reeve. To draw into wrinkles.—N.W. (Malmesbury, Clyffe Pypard, &c.)
Remlet. A remnant.—N.W.
Reneeg, Renegue (g always hard). To back out of an engagement, to jilt.—N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) In Ireland a horse refusing a fence would be said to renage. See Whyte-Melville's Satanella, ch. i. p. 7: Lear, ii. 2, &c.
Revel. A pleasure fair; a parochial festival, a wake (A.B.), as 'Road Revel.' A village Club Feast (S.).—N. & S.W. There was a revel held at Cley Hill formerly, on Palm Sunday, and one at Kington Langley on the Sunday following St. Peter's Day.
Rhaa. Hungry, ravenous. See Rhan.—N.W. (Clyffe Pypard, rarely.)
Rhan (pronounced Rhaan). To eat voraciously (S.). A form of raven. Cf. West of Eng. ranish, ravenous.—S.W.
*Rhine (pronounced Reen). A water-course. This is a Som. word.—N.W. (Malmesbury.) Mr. Powell mentions a Wiltshire poem, which begins:—
'There once were a frog that lived in a ditch, Or 'twere may be a rheen, it don't matter which.'
Rick-barken. A rick-yard (A.). See Barken.—N.W.