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RABBET to RAISING a purchase
RAKE to RATES
RATES to To REEVE
RECKONING to RHOMB-LINE
RECKONING
REFITTING
REIGNING-WINDS
RELIEVING-TACKLES
RENDERING
RENDEZVOUS
REPAIR
REPRISE
RETREAT
RHOMB-LINE
RIBBANDS to RIGGING-OUT a boom
RIGHTING to ROBANDS, or ROPE BANDS
ROGUES-YARN to ROUND-HOUSE
ROUNDING to ROYAL
RUDDER to RUNNING-RIGGING
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REPAIR
REPAIR, (radoub, Fr.) the operation of amending any injuries, or supplying any deficiencies, which a ship may have received by age, battle, tempestuous weather, &c.The repair is necessarily greater or smaller, in proportion to the loss which the vessel has fustained. Accordingly a suitable number of the timbers, beams, or planks, or a sufficient part of either, are removed, and new pieces fixed in their places. The whole is completed by breaming, caulking, and paying the body with a new composition of stuff. See DOCKING.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 241, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/1061.html