||William Falconer's Dictionary of the Marine
Table of Contents
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
RUDDER to RUNNING-RIGGING
ROLLERROLLER, a cylindrical piece of timber, fixed either horizontally or perpendicularly above a ship's deck, so as to revolve about an axis. It is used to prevent the cables, hawsers, &c. from being chafed by the friction which their surfaces would otherwise encounter, from bearing against that part of the ship, where the roller is placed, whilst they are drawn into the ship, &c. by mechanical powers.
ROLLERS, are also moveable pieces of wood, of the same figure, which are occasionally placed under planks, or long pieces of timber, in order to move them with greater facility either in the dock-yards, or in lading and delivering merchant-ships.
© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 246, 2004
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