RABANS, a general name given to earings, gaskets, knittles, and rope.bands.

RABANS d'avuste, a sort of braided knittles, like those formed to point a rope.

RABANS de ferlage, the gaskets employed to furl the sails to their yards.

CABANS de pavillon, the rope.band of a flag or ensign.

CABANS de pointure, the head.earings, or reef.earings of a sail.

RABANS de tétier, the rope.band of any sail.

RABATTUES, the intervals between the drift.rails of a ship; this term is peculiar to shipwrights.

RABLES, the floor.timbers of a boat.

RABLURE, the rabbet or channel cut in the keel, stem, and stern.post, to receive the edges of the garboard streaks, and the ends of the planks afore and abaft.

RACAGE, a parrel with ribs and trucks.

RACAMBEAU, a traveller, or slender iron ring, which sometimes encircles the mast of a long.boat, serving as a parrel to the yard or gaff.

RACCOMMODER, to repair or refit a ship's rigging. See RADOUBER.

RACHE de goudron, the dregs of bad tar.

RACLE, or GRATOIR, a scraper, used to clean a ship's side, deck, or bottom.

RACLE.double, a two.edged, or double scraper.

RACLE.grande, a large scraper, used to clean the ship's bottom under water.

RACLE.petite, or petite RACLE, a small scraper, employed to scrape the planks, &c. above the water.

BACLER, to scrape the sides, &c. of a ship.

RADE, a road, or road.stead.

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