rive up, I, 303, 7: plough up, tear up.
riued, I, 284, 9: arrived, travelled.
river, III, 364 b: robber. See reaver.
river-comb, red, II, 216, A 19: is river a corruption of ivory? In B 2, 4, it is a tabean brirben kame. H 1, brown berry comb. J 2, fine rispen kame: fine-filed (?). All seem to be badly corrupted.
rook, roke, IV, 84, 14; 85, 4; 86, 6; 87, 4; V, [254] a, 4: distaff.
rocked, rocket, roked, II, 191, 24; 195, 33: smoked.
rod, III, 8, 21: a bier was extemporized by taking rods from bushes for spakes, spokes, or bars.
roddins, II, 408, 19, 20; 409 f., 21, 23: berries of mountain ash. (But the berries are said to grow on yonder thorn, 409, 21.)
rode, rood.
roelle-bone, I, 326; 6. royal bone, I, 466 f., 10, 33; royal ben, I, 478 f., 12, 46: interpreted variously, without satisfaction. See rewel-boon, Professor Skeat’s note to Chaucer’s Sir Thopas, v. 2068. Hertzberg suggests Reval bone, mammoth tooth, fossil ivory, imported into western Europe via Reval, Chaucer Nachlese, in Jahrbuch für Rom. und Engl. Litteratur, VIII, 164 f.; and Prof. Skeat (with a different derivation), ivory of the walrus, citing Godefroy, “rochal, ivoire de morse.”