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THOMPSON'S, COAST. PILOT. , 168 Reef, part of a sail, from one row of eyelet-holes to another. It is applied likewise to a chain of rocks lying near the surface of the water. Reefing, the operation of reducing a sail by taking in one or more of 'the reefs, To reeve, to pass the end of a rope through any hole, as the channel of a block, the cavity of a thimble, etc. fendering, the giving way or yielding to the efforts of some mechanical power. It is used in opposition to jamming or sticking. Ribs of a ship, a figurative expression for the timbers. Ride at anchor, is when a ship is held by her anchors, and is not driven by wind or tide.--7o ride dathwart, is to ride with the ship's side to the tide. --To ride hawse fallen, is when the water breaks into the hawse in a rough sea. Rigging, a general name given to all the ropes employed to support the masts, to extend or reduce the sails, or to arrange them to the disposition of the wind. fighting, restoring the ship to an upright position, either after she has been laid on a careen, or after she has been pressed down on her side by the wind. To right the helm, is to bring it into ee after it has been pushed either to starboard or larboard. . | Rigging out a boom, the running out a pole at the end of a yard, to extend _ the foot of a sail. To rig the capstan, to fix the bars in their respective holes. Road, a place near the land where ships may anchor, but which is not sheltered. fobands, or rope bands, short, flat pieces of plaited rope, having an eye worked at one end. They are used in pairs to tie the upper edges of the square-sails to their respective yards. fiolling, the motion by which a ship rocks from side to side like a cradle. hough tree, a name applied to any mast, yard, or boom, placed in mer- chant ships, as a rail or fence above the vessel's side, from the quarter-deck to the forecastle. ; Rounding in, the pulling upon any rope which passes through one or more blocks in a direction nearly horizontal; as, Round in the weather- braces. es : Rounding, old ropes fastened on the cable, near the anchor, to keep it . from chafing. Round turn, the situation of the two cables of a ship when moored, after they have been several times crossed by;the swinging of the ship. Rounding up, similar to rounding in, except that it was applied to ropes and blocks which act in a perpendicular direction. | Rousing,"pulling up a cable or rope without the assistance ad tackles. To row, to move a boat with oars.