An Universal Dictionary of the Marine / Or, a Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Employed in the Construction, Equipment, Furniture, Machinery, Movements, and Military Operations of a Ship. Illustrated With Variety of Original Designs of Shipping, in Different Situations; Together With Separate Views of Their Masts, Sails, Yards, and Rigging. to Which Is Annexed, a Translation of the French Sea-terms and Phrases, Collected from the Works of Mess. Du Hamel, Aubin, Saverien, &c.

by William Falconer

REBORDER, to fall aboard or along-side of a ship a second time.

RECHANGE, a general name for the stores of a ship; or the spare rigging, sails, &c. which are in reserve to supply the place of what may be lost or disabled.

RECLAMPER, to fish a mast or yard when it happens to be sprung.

RECONNOITRE un vaisseau, to approach a ship, in order to discover her strength, and of what nation she is.

Reconnoitre une terre, to survey or observe the situation of a coast attentively.

RECOURIR les coutures, to run over the seams of a ship in calking; to calk them lightly and expeditiously.

Recourir sur une manœuvre, to under-run a rope or cable.

Faire Recourir l’ecoute, la bouline, le couet de revers, to haul in the slack of the lee-tack or bowline, or of the weather-sheet.

RECOUVRE! rouse-in, or haul aboard!

RECOUVRER, to rouse-in, or haul any rope into the ship, when it hangs slack in the water, or otherwise.