ring and the ba, IV, 257, 4; 354, A b 1, 2: a game in which a ring was thrown up, and a ball was to be thrown through before the ring fell. Dr. W. Gregor. The rantin lassie plays at this, IV, 354.
ringle-tree, V, [112], B b 11: probably the huge block of wood used for scutching flax and mangling clothes. An old game-keeper tells me that he has heard the word and so understands it. When not in use for beating flax, the beetle and tree-block were used by the women to mangle their clothes after washing. W. Walker.
ripe, reap, rype, III, 160, 16; 163, 83, 84; V, [306], 9: search, rummage, clear or clean out, rifle.
rise, III, 332, 2: branch.
rise==raise: III, 513 b, 4. pret. rose, 514 a, 5. See ryse.
rise, pret. of rise, III, 369, 17.
rise, did on anchor rise so high, III, 344, 34: said of a ship in full sail; no apparent sense. (ride in B c, g, 347, 34; upon an anchor rose so high in h, 349, 34.)
rispen, fine rispen kame, II, 225, J 2: keen, sharp, risping, rasping? or, p. p., filed? (This passage is variously corrupted in different versions.)
ritted, II, 295, B b 4, 22: stuck, stabbed.
rive, rave, reave, pret. of rive, tear, V, [256], 13. p. p. II, 465, 4, 6, 8.