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 247 Quoits. A game played with roundisli but flat stones, thrown at a mark or place. Once very common. (Quoit or Koeten, in Celtic Cornish, means a broad thin stone, or rock. Borlase,) Rab. Granite rubble. Rabban. Miner's term for a ^^ yellowish dry stone resembling gossan .'' Pryce, Rabbet et! or Od Rabbet et! An exclamation, as if to say, " Confound it." Rabble. An iron rake for stirring and skimming off copper ore in calcination and melting. Pryce, Rabblerash. A dirty, noisy mob. " The great un- washed." Eabbishy staff. Rabble-fish. Inferior fishes. Race. To place things in a row. Also, to string things together, as ^'a race of onions.'' Race. A go cart. M.A.c. Radgell. An excavated tunnel. The W. Briton. Rafe or RafFe. To tear or rend. RafF, or Raffle. Poor stuff, anything scrappy and inferior. RafFain. K.aff. Raffain ore. Poor ore of no valae. Ram-cat. A "Tom" cat. Raines. The skeleton, as, ^-'the rames of a goose." J-W- LostwithieL