1857.—(Imports into Kandahar, from Mashad and Khorasan) "Razaies from Yezd...."—Punjab Trade Report, App. p. lxviii.
1867.—"I had brought with me a soft quilted rezai to sleep on, and with a rug wrapped round me, and sword and pistol under my head, I lay and thought long and deeply upon my line of action on the morrow."—Lieut.-Col. Lewin, A Fly on the Wheel, 301.
RUBBEE, s. Ar. rabi, 'the Spring.' In India applied to the crops, or harvest of the crops, which are sown after the rains and reaped in the following spring or early summer. Such crops are wheat, barley, [gram], linseed, tobacco, onions, carrots and turnips, &c. (See [KHURREEF].)
[1765.—"... we have granted them the Dewannee (see [DEWAUNY]) of the provinces of Bengal, Bahar, and Orissa, from the beginning of the Fussul Rubby of the Bengal year 1172...."—Firmaun of Shah Aaalum, in Verelst, View of Bengal, App. 167.
[1866.—"It was in the month of November, when, if the rains closed early, irrigation is resorted to for producing the young rubbee crops."—Confessions of an Orderly, 179.]
RUBLE, s. Russ. The silver unit of Russian currency, when a coin (not paper) equivalent to 3s. 1½d.; [in 1901 about 2s. 1½d.]. It was originally a silver ingot; see first quotation and note below.
1559.—"Vix centum annos vtuntur moneta argentea, praesertim apud illos cusa. Initio cum argentum in provinciam inferebatur, fundebantur portiunculae oblongae argenteae, sine imagine et scriptura, aestimatione vnius rubli, quarum nulla nunc apparet."[[233]]—Herberstein, in Rerum Moscovit. Auctores, Francof. 1600, p. 42.
1591.—"This penaltie or mulct is 20 dingoes (see [TANGA]) or pence upon every rubble or mark, and so ten in the hundred.... Hee (the Emperor) hath besides for every name conteyned in the writs that passe out of their courts, five alteens, an alteen 5 pence sterling or thereabouts."—Treatise of the Russian Commonwealth, by Dr. Giles Fletcher, Hak. Soc. 51.
c. 1654-6.—"Dog dollars they (the Russians) are not acquainted with, these being attended with loss ... their own dínárs they call Roubles."—Macarius, E.T. by Balfour, i. 280.
[RUFFUGUR, s. P.—H. rafūgar, Pers. rafū, 'darning.' The modern rafūgar in Indian cities is a workman who repairs rents and holes in Kashmīr shawls and other woollen fabrics. Such workmen were regularly employed in the cloth factories of the E.I. Co., to examine the manufactured cloths and remove petty defects in the weaving.