ROUGH BOOKS. Those in which the warrant officers make their immediate entries of expenditure.
ROUGH-KNOTS, or Rough Nauts. Unsophisticated seamen.
ROUGH MUSIC. Rolling shot about on the lower deck, and other discordant noises, when seamen are discontented, but without being mutinous.
ROUGH-SPARS. Cut timber before being worked into masts, &c.
ROUGH-TREE. An unfinished spar: also a name given in merchant ships to any mast, or other spar above the ship's side; it is, however, with more propriety applied to any, mast, &c., which, remaining rough and unfinished, is placed in that situation.
ROUGH-TREE TIMBER. Upright pieces of timber placed at intervals along the side of a vessel, to support the rough-tree. They are also called stanchions.
ROUND. To bear round up. To go before the wind.—To round a point, is to steer clear of and go round it.
ROUND-AFT. The outward curve or segment of a circle, that the stern partakes of from the wing transom upwards.
ROUND AND GRAPE. A phrase used when a gun is charged at close quarters with round shot, grape, and canister; termed a belly-full.
ROUND DOZEN. A punishment term for thirteen lashes.