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NAUTICAL  DICTIONARY.
 

RABBET (Fr, Rablure), in Shipbuilding, an angular groove
made in one piece of wood to receive the edge or end of another
piece: as in the keel for the edge of the garboard-strake, or in
the stem and stern-post for the hooding-ends.

RACK.    To seize two ropes together with cross turns.

To rack a tackle, is to seize the two opposite parts of the fall
together, in order to prevent it from rendering through the blocks.
This is illustrated in Seamanship by Lieutenant Nares, figs. 82,
83, and 199^.

A rack, is a name for a board with holes in it, seized to the
standing rigging below a vessel's top as a fair-leader for running
rigging.     Also a piece of wood having holes to serve as fair-
 

RACK  WITH  BELAYING  PINS.
 

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RACK FOR OARS— OAR RACK.
 

leaders, and tackspins in it for belaying ropes to, made fast across
the shrouds inside near the rail. Beneath it there is a cleat fixed
in one of the stanchions to take the rope round before belaying it,
after it has been brought through the fair-leader. See Rack-
block,

RACK-BAR.    A billet of wood used for twisting the bight of
a swifter round, in order to bind a raft firmly together.

RACK-BLOCK, or RACK.    A course of blocks made in one
piece of wood to act as fair-leaders.
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