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

ROUANER une pompe, to enlarge the bore or channel of a ship’s pump.

ROUCHE d’un vaisseau, the hull of a ship, without masts or rigging.

ROUER une manœuvre, to coil a rope.

Rouer à tour, to coil a rope with the sun, i. e. according to the course of the sun in north-latitude.

Rouer à contre, to coil a rope against the sun.

ROUES d’affut de canon, the trucks of a gun-carriage.

ROUET de poulie, the sheave of a block.

Rouet de poulie de chaloupe, the sheave of a long-boat’s davit; also the sheave on the top of her stern-post, or stem for weighing an anchor.

ROULEAU, a roller, or cylindrical piece of wood placed under any weighty body, in order to move it with greater facility by means of handspikes, &c.

ROULER, to roll tumultuously; expressed of the waves of a swelling sea.