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A rope or hawser by which a vessel is towed or warped along; -- so called because it is necessary to guess at the length to be carried in the boat making the attachment to a distant object.
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A rotating wheel, mounted in a ring or rings, for illustrating the dynamics of rotating bodies, the composition of rotations, etc. It was devised by Professor W. R. Johnson, in 1832, by whom it was called the rotascope.
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A rounded knoll or hillock; a rise of ground of no great extent, above a level surface.
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A roundlet of tincture sanguine, which is blazoned without mention of the tincture.
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A row of shrubs, or trees, planted for inclosure or separation of fields.
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A ruffian; one who hounds, or spies upon, another; app. esp. to the members of certain alleged societies among the Chinese.
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