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rabbidge    -      rabbit

rabbled    -    entangled

rabblement     -     a noisy crowd

rabble o'er    -     to peruse rapidly 

racapelt    -    a good-for-nothing, disreputable person

race-ginger    -    root ginger, not ground 

racket    -     the consequences, the brunt "I'll stond the                               racket, if there's owt said" 

racketty    -    wild, reckless 

rad    -    quick, ready "That's the rad way o'doin' the                             job"

rag   -     "There'll be rags o'th hob" = there'll be a row, "To                    get anyone's rag out" = to put them in a rage 

raggaz    -     to loiter, lounge about 

rag-mannered   -    rude-mannered

raind-haise     -    jail, (round house)

rake up the fire   -     to clean out the grate, stoke it and keep                                 it going all night

rakussing    -      raucous

rallock    -     a tattered garment "Stick it i'th rag bag: it's                           nowt bur an owd rallock" 

ram-in   -    to set vigorously to work 

rammel    -   hard, barren earth 

rammy   -    stinking, smelling rank like a goat or a ram

rampion      -    a stick, cudgel "Ah'll get a rampion ait o'the                            hedge, an pleach upon yo, if yo binna shiftin'                          yur hommocks!" 

random-shot   -    a wild young fellow 

randy   -      unmanageable, irrepressible 

randybow   -     to create a disturbance

ran-tan    -      an ill-temper "The mester cam i'th'haise in a                           bit of a ran-tan, cos the dinner wonna just                               ready to a minute" 

rantipow   -    a rude boisterous person 

rap    -    to exchange or swap 

rap and ring, rape an' scrape    -   to scrimp and save, scrape                                                    together

rap-a-tag, rackatag, rattatag    -   a scamp, rascal, rap-                                                              scallion

"Rappit - it!"   -     expletive - "Bother it!"

raps    -     sport, fun 

rase-brained   -    hare-brained

rash    -     eager, quick 

rattle-skull     -     a talkative person 

rattle-trap    -    the mouth, used only in reference to foolish                           utterances 

rattle-traps    -       belongings

rattocks    -      very small potatoes 

raunge    -      to strive or reach after with a great effort 

rawly    -     inadequately 

rawmy   -       of plants - spreading (literally roaming)

rawny    -    big, clumsy 

rawp   -      to scratch 

rawsy   -      of yarn and fibres - rough, coarse 

rear     -      to raise, to mould the crust of a raised pie "I've                       been agate aw mornin' rearin' pork pies"

redden up      -     to become of a bright colour 

reddyin'-comb     -      a hair-comb 

Red-rag    -      Poplar tree

reechy     -     smoky "The chimley's despert reechy"

reely    -      lanky, (like a rail) 

reenpike   -       an old rotten branch in a tree 

reight    -      right, real, true 

reight-dain    -      downright

remember, remember on    -      to remind "Remember me on                                          to fetch some tea from Namptwich" 

rest-piece    -       a piece of land that has not been ploughed                              for a long time 

retch      -     to stretch 

rid   -     to clear land, to stub up furze, pull up a hedge etc..

"riddamadeasy"      -   reading made easy - a child's school                                       reading book 

riddin's    -     common name for a field, originally because it                        would be land which had been 'ridded' 

rift   -     to belch out 

rigg     -    gale force storm

riff raff    -      a noisy crowd (see rabblement)

rindle    -      a rivulet, a stream 

ring      -    (1) to call bees together when swarming, with a                     sharp ringing noise "ringin' the bees" (2) to ring                       pigs is to put rings through their snouts to stop                       them from "rooting" in the earth

rip    -     to go furiously 

ripper    -     a term of commendation applied to a person,                          animal or thing (like a bobby dazzler)

ripstitch    -    a romping, boisterous, irrepressible child who                        is always "ripping his stitches" 

Robin Hood's Wind       -      a soft wind that brings on a thaw                                           following freezing weather

rittling / ruttling    -     the weakest of a litter, runt

rizzom    -     the head of the oat 

roche, roach    -     a sort of soft sandstone (the roaches) 

rog / rogging     -     shaking

roguery    -     mischief 

rollock     -      to walk with a rolling gait 

ronk    -     rank, foul-smelling, dangerous 

ronk / ronk full   -     overflowing

romble    -    to romp or climb upon 

rompety, rompilent     -     violent, restive, restless

rookin    -     collecting together

root   -    to pry, see toot

rooty-tooty    -      a fete, festivity 

roozle     -      to rouse "I was snousin' awee cowmfortable                          enough, when yo roozled me up" 

ropy     -     of bread - stringy, heavy "Pox tak this blessed                        bread! It's ropy again, same as last batch"

rots      -       rats 

rough-filled     -     raised on plain food 

rough nutting    -     picking rough, windfall nuts from the                                       ground

rough-sorted    -     rough in manner and speech

rowdy-dowdy     -    a merry-making like rooty tooty 

rubbitch    -     rubbish, a term of depreciation applied to                               persons 

rubbitchin'    -    rubbishy "There was a mon i'th' fair wi' some                          rubbitchin' cheise" 

ruck     -      a heap, a quantity

ruckle    -     to crumple 

rucklety-tucklety     -     crumpled, creased 

rummadust   -   a row

rump an' stump    -     literally root and branch, without                                            leaving anything 

rump up    -     to smash, to make useless 

rundle     -     a small brook, runlet, see rindle

runagate     -    an unstable or unsettled person 

rushbearing     -    originated from holy places being strewn                                with rushes and scented with lavender. The                            rush cart would be drawn around the                                      boundary of a region, ornamented with                                    rushes and drawn by four grey horses. It                                would be accompanied by a band of raucous                            morris men, one of whom would be dressed                            as a woman bearing an immense wooden                                spoon!