_v. a._ To widen; to open.
Reamer. _s._ An instrument used to make a hole larger.
Re'balling. _s._ The catching of eels with earthworms
attached to a ball of lead, hung by a string from a pole.
Reed. _s._ Wheat straw prepared for thatching.
Reen, Rhine. _s._ A water-course: an open drain.
To Reeve. _v. a._ To rivel; to draw into wrinkles.
Rem'let. _s._ A remnant.
Rev'el. _s._ A wake.
To Rig. _v. n._ To climb about; to get up and down a thing in
wantonness or sport.
Hence the substantive _rig_, as used in _John Gilpin_,
by COWPER.
"He little dreamt of running such a _rig_."
To Rig. _v. a._ To dress.
Hence, I suspect, the origin of the _rigging_ of a vessel.
Righting-lawn. Adjusting the ridges after the wheat is sown.
Rip. _s._ A vulgar, old, unchaste woman. Hence, most
probably, the origin of _Demirip_.
Robin-Riddick. _s._ A redbreast. [Also _Rabbin
Hirddick_; the r and i transposed.]
Rode. _s._ _To go to rode_, means, late at night or
early in the morning, to go out to shoot wild fowl which pass over
head on the wing.
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