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Ranging Pole
- noun - surveying instrument consisting of a straight rod painted in bands of alternate red and white each one foot wide; used for sightings by surveyors
Rangpur Lime
- noun - hybrid between mandarin orange and lemon having very acid fruit with orange peel
Ransom Money
- noun - money demanded for the return of a captured person
Ranunculales
- noun - herbs, shrubs and trees: includes families Ranunculaceae; Annonaceae; Berberidaceae; Magnoliaceae; Menispermaceae; Myristicaceae; Nymphaeaceae; Lardizabalaceae; Lauraceae; Calycanthaceae; Ceratophyllaceae; Cercidiphyllaceae
Rape Suspect
- noun - someone who is suspected of committing rape
Rapeseed Oil
- noun - edible light yellow to brown oil from rapeseed used also as a lubricant or illuminant
Raphaelesque
- - Like Raphael's works; in Raphael's manner of painting.
Rapid-Firing
- - Firing shots in rapid succession. (b) (Ordnance) Capable of being fired rapidly; -- applied to single-barreled guns of greater caliber than small arms, mounted so as to be quickly trained and elevated, with a quick-acting breech mechanism operated by a single motion of a crank or lever (abbr. R. F.); specif.: (1) In the United States navy, designating such a gun using fixed ammunition or metallic cartridge cases; -- distinguished from breech-loading (abbr. B. L.), applied to all guns loading with the charge in bags, and formerly from quick-fire. Rapid-fire guns in the navy also sometimes include automatic or semiautomatic rapid-fire guns; the former being automatic guns of not less than one inch caliber, firing a shell of not less than one pound weight, the explosion of each cartridge operating the mechanism for ejecting the empty shell, loading, and firing the next shot, the latter being guns that require one operation of the hand at each discharge, to load the gun. (2) In the United
Rappahannock
- noun - a river that flows across eastern Virginia into the Tidewater region