The Sailor's Word-Book / An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc.

by W. H. Smyth

REAR-RANK. The last rank of a body of men drawn up in simple line.

REAR-SHIP. The sternmost ship of a fleet.

RE-ASSEMBLE. To gather together a fleet, or convoy, after having been scattered.

REASTY. Rancid or rusty pork or butter, &c.

REAVEL, or Raffle. To entangle; to knot confusedly together.

REBALLING. The catching of eels with earth-worms attached to a ball of lead suspended by a string from a pole.

REBATE. See [Discount].

REBATES. The grooves formed on each side of the keel, stem, or stern-post, to receive the planks. (See [Rabbet].)

REBELS. Revolters and mutineers; in admiralty law the same as enemies.

RECEIVERS of Droits of Admiralty. Now termed [receivers of wreck] (which see).