hers in succession
nip the cable home to each ring-bolt in succession. It is a precaution
in veering cable in bad weather.

RING-TAIL. A kind of studding-sail hoisted beyond the after edge of
those sails which are extended by a gaff and a boom over the stern. The
two lower corners of this sail are stretched to a boom, called a
_ring-tail boom_, which rigs in and out upon the main or driver boom.

RINK. A space of ice devoted to certain recreations, as a skating or a
curling rink: generally roofed in from the snow in Canada.

RIONNACK. A name of the horse-mackerel among the Scottish islands.

RIP. A pannier or basket used for carrying fish.--_To rip_, to strip off
a ship's planks.

RIPARIA. A law-term for the water running between the banks of a river.

RIPARY. Inhabiting the sea-shore.

RIPE [from the Latin, _ripa_]. The banks of a tide-river, and the
sea-shore: a term in use on our southern coasts.

RIPPERS, OR RIPIERS. Men from the sea-shores, who sell fish to the
inland towns and villages.

RIPPING-IRON. A caulker's tool for tearing oakum out of a seam, or
stripping copper or sheathing from a ship's bottom. (_See_ REEMING.)

RIPPLE. The small waves raised on the surface of the water by the
passage of a slight breeze, or current, caused by foul bottom.

RIPPLE-MARKS. The ripply appearance left at low water on the flat part
of a sandy beach.

RIPPS. _See_ TIDE-RIP. Also, strange overfalls, the waves of which, even
in calm weather, will throw their crests over the bulwarks.

RISBERM. Fascines placed to oppose the violence of the surf.

RISING-FLOORS. The floor-timbers, which rise gradually from the plane of
the midship floor, so as to sharpen the form of a vessel towards the bow
and stern.

RISINGS OF BOATS. A narrow strake of board fastened withinside to
support the thwarts.

RISING-SQUARE. In ship-carpentry, a square used in the whole moulding,
upon which is marked the height of the rising line above the keel.

RISK A RUN, TO. To take chance without convoy.

RISKS. The casualties against which insurances are made on ships and
cargoes.

RITTOCH. An Orkney name for the tern, _Sterna hirundo_.

RIVAGE. An old term, from the French, for a coast or shore of the sea,
or a river.

RIVAGIUM. A law-term for a duty paid to the sovereign on some rivers for
the passage of boats or vessels.

RIVAILE. An Anglo-Norman term for a harbour.

RIVE. The sea-shore. Also, as a verb, to split wood.

RIVER-BOAT