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RABBET to RAISING a purchase
RAKE to RATES
RATES to To REEVE
RECKONING to RHOMB-LINE
RIBBANDS to RIGGING-OUT a boom
RIGHTING to ROBANDS, or ROPE BANDS
ROGUES-YARN to ROUND-HOUSE
ROUNDING to ROYAL
ROUNDING
ROUNDING-IN
ROUNDING-UP
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ROUNDING-UP
ROUNDING-UP is used nearly in the same sense, only that it is expressed of a tackle which hangs in a perpendicular position, without sustaining or hoisting any weighty body: it is then the operation of pulling the blocks closer to each other, by means of the rope which passes through them, to compose the tackle; and is therefore opposed to over-hauling, by which the blocks are drawn further asunder.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 248, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/1097.html