list for routine on any particular duty. (_See_
ROLLSTER.)

ROSTRAL-CROWN. The naval crown anciently awarded to the individual who
first boarded an enemy's ship.

ROSTRUM. A prow; also a stand for a public speaker.

ROTATION. The motion of a body about its axis.

ROTHER. This lineal descendant of the Anglo-Saxon _roter_ is still in
use for _rudder_ (which see).

ROTTEN ROW. A line of old ships-in-ordinary in _routine_ order.

ROUBLE. _See_ RUBLE.

ROUGH BOOKS. Those in which the warrant officers make their immediate
entries of expenditure.

ROUGH-KNOTS, OR ROUGH NAUTS. Unsophisticated seamen.

ROUGH MUSIC. Rolling shot about on the lower deck, and other discordant
noises, when seamen are discontented, but without being mutinous.

ROUGH-SPARS. Cut timber before being worked into masts, &c.

ROUGH-TREE. An unfinished spar: also a name given in merchant ships to
any mast, or other spar above the ship's side; it is, however, with more
propriety applied to any, mast, &c., which, remaining rough and
unfinished, is placed in that situation.

ROUGH-TREE TIMBER. Upright pieces of timber placed at intervals along
the side of a vessel, to support the rough-tree. They are also called
stanchions.

ROUND. _To bear round up._ To go before the wind.--_To round a point_,
is to steer clear of and go round it.

ROUND-AFT. The outward curve or segment of a circle, that the stern
partakes of from the wing transom upwards.

ROUND AND GRAPE. A phrase used when a gun is charged at close quarters
with round shot, grape, and canister; termed a belly-full.

ROUND DOZEN. A punishment term for thirteen lashes.

ROUND-HOUSE. A name given in East Indiamen and other large merchant
ships, to square cabins built on the after-part of the quarter-deck, and
having the poop for its roof; such an apartment is frequently called the
_coach_ in ships of war. Round, because one can walk round it. In some
trading vessels the round-house is built on the deck, generally abaft
the main-mast.

ROUND-IN, TO. To haul in on a fall; the act of pulling upon any slack
rope which passes through one or more blocks in a direction nearly
horizontal, and is particularly applied to the braces, as "Round-in the
weather-braces." It is apparently derived from the circular motion of
the rope about the sheave or pulley, through which it passes.

ROUNDING. A service wrapped round a spar or hawser. Also, old ropes
wound firmly and closely about the layers of th