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rail
A rail used to suspend objects from.

CL fixtures and fittings

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rake
A toothed, handled tool used to drag objects either to gather them together eg grass or hay, or to level them out eg sand or earth.

CL tools and equipment

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rapier
A long narrow two edged sword with a guarded hilt, used as a thrusting weapon.

CL armour and weapons
BT sword

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rasp
A tool for smoothing objects.

CL tools and equipment
BT smoothing equipment

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ratchet rattle
An instrument whirled to produce sound by a piece of flexible wood hitting against a ratchet wheel.

CL music
BT musical instrument <integral>

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rattle
A hollow instrument containing material that produces sound when shaken.

CL music
BT musical instrument <integral>
NT jingle

UF sistrum

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razor
A sharp blade used for shaving.

CL dress and personal accessories
BT shaving item

CL tools and equipment
BT cutting equipment

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reamer
An object used in smithing to enlarge holes, consists of a tapered square rod.

CL tools and equipment

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reaper
A machine for cutting down cereal crops.

CL agriculture and subsistence
BT harvesting and mowing object

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reaping hook
A hooked blade used to cut crops. All the blade is to one side of the handle rather than being on both sides as in a sickle.

CL agriculture and subsistence
BT harvesting and mowing object

CL tools and equipment
BT cutting equipment

UF reaping knife

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reaping knife

USE reaping hook

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receiver
A container used in the distilling process to catch the distilled liquid.

CL container
BT scientific and industrial container

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recorder

USE flute

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<reed blown wind instrument>
An instrument in which air is made to vibrate by a cane reed, which may be single or double, and may or may not be contained in a reed cap.

CL music
BT wind instrument
NT reed pipe

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reed cap

USE wind instrument

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reed pipe
An instrument in which air is made to vibrate by a cane reed.

CL music
BT reed blown wind instrument
NT bagpipes
NT shaum

UF aulos
UF pipe (music)
UF tibia

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regal

USE organ

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rein
One or more ropes or straps attached to an animal's head to provide guidance and control.

CL animal equipment
BT harness

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rein guide

USE harness ring

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relief
A raised carving.

CL unassigned
BT sculpture

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CLASS - RELIGION OR RITUAL
Objects used or associated with religious, ritual or funerary activities.

NT altar vessel
NT ball (ritual)
NT censer
NT chrismatory
NT circumcision equipment
NT corn dolly
NT cremation
NT cross
NT crozier
NT death burial or funerary object
NT divinational object
NT eucharist object
NT holy water sprinkler
NT holy water vessel
NT icon
NT idol
NT incantation bowl
NT incense holder
NT incense shovel
NT incense spoon
NT incense tongs
NT marriage object
NT monstrance
NT ogham stone
NT pall
NT pax
NT phallic object
NT pyx
NT religious personal accessory
NT religious structural object
NT ritual flail
NT rune stone
NT sacrificial or libational object
NT scarab
NT scarab seal
NT shabti
NT sun disc
NT symbol stone
NT witch bottle

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<religious or ritual container>
A container with a religious, ritual or funerary use.

CL container
BT container <by function>
NT altar vessel
NT ampulla
NT burial chest
NT canopic vessel
NT censer
NT chalice
NT cinerary bowl
NT cinerary casket
NT cinerary urn
NT coffin
NT divination bowl
NT dowry box
NT holy water vessel
NT incantation bowl
NT lachrymatory (religious)
NT laver
NT libation container
NT marriage bowl
NT monstrance
NT offering vessel
NT piscina
NT pygmy cup
NT reliquary
NT votive tank

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<religious personal accessory>
An object carried about the person for religious purposes.

CL religion or ritual
NT ampulla
NT amulet
NT charm
NT charm bracelet
NT charm necklace
NT cross pendant
NT phylactery
NT pilgrim badge
NT prayer bead
NT rosary
NT scarab amulet
NT scarab ring

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religious screen
A screen dividing one part of a church from another.

CL religion or ritual
BT religious structural object
NT rood screen

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<religious structural object>
Use for structural objects within or connected to a place of worship, eg font. For structures, use a monuments thesaurus.

CL religion or ritual
NT altar
NT altarpiece
NT diptych (religious)
NT effigy
NT font
NT grave marker
NT grave slab
NT gravestone
NT religious screen
NT sarcophagus
NT stoup (basin)
NT tabernacle
NT tomb
NT tombstone
NT triptych (religious)

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reliquary
A container for holy relics.

RT reliquary cross

CL container
BT religious or ritual container

CL religion or ritual
BT death burial or funerary object

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reliquary cross
A cross connected to a reliquary or containing a relic itself.

RT reliquary

CL religion or ritual
BT cross

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reptile remains
Use for the remains of any part of a reptile.

CL ecofacts
BT animal remains

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resonator

USE soundbox

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retort
A glass vessel with a long tapering neck that is bent down. Used for distillation.

CL container
BT scientific and industrial container

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retouched flake
A flake that has had small flakes removed to blunt, sharpen, refine the outline or prepare the edge of the tool.

CL tools and equipment
BT flake

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retractors
An instrument for holding back a part of a body eg an organ.

CL medicine and pharmacy
BT surgical instrument

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ribbon
A narrow strip of fine material, used for trimming or tying.

CL dress and personal accessories
BT dress component

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rice bin
A container for the storage of rice.

CL container
BT storage bin

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riddle

USE sieve

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ridge tile
A tile which covers the ridge of a roof.

CL architecture
BT roof tile

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rifle
A long barrelled firearm. The barrel is spirally grooved on the interior, which gives the bullet a spinning motion leading to greater accuracy over a longer range.

CL armour and weapons
BT longarm

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ring
Use specific type where known.

CL unassigned

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ring money (currency)
Silver rings believed to have been used in the Hebrides and Irish Sea regions during the Viking period, and derived from Hiberno-Viking arm rings.

CL currency

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ring money (non currency)
Penannular objects of late Bronze Age, usually gold and too small to be worn on arms.

CL unassigned

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ring pendant

USE pendant

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rippler
An instrument to remove the seeds from flax.

CL tools and equipment

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ritual flail
A flail used for the mortification of the flesh.

RT scourge

CL religion or ritual

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<ritual symbol>
An item with both secular and religious signifigance.

rivet
A bolt for fastening metal plates. One end is put through prepared holes and then beaten flat.

CL unassigned
BT fastening

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robe
A long outer garment reaching the ankles.

CL dress and personal accessories
BT outerwear

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rod
A slender, cylindrical object. Use specific types of rod where possible. Where it is a rod of material which is part of a production process, eg a glass rod, use rod and enter the material in an object material field.

CL unassigned

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rommelpot
An instrument made by inserting a stick through a membrane stretched over a hollow vessel then played by rubbing the stick.

CL music
BT musical instrument <by membrane>

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rood

USE cross

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rood screen
A screen of wood or stone, used to divide the nave from the choir.

CL religion or ritual
BT religious screen

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roof finial
An ornament at the top of a roof or spire.

CL architecture
BT architectural fragment

UF antefix
UF finial
UF gable cross

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roof louver

USE louvre

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roof louvre

USE louvre

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roof slab
A comparatively thick, rectangular rough piece of stone used to roof structures.

CL architecture
BT architectural fragment

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roof slate
A thin rectangular piece of stone of a type that splits into a thin flat piece used as a roofing material.

CL architecture
BT architectural fragment

UF slate

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roof tile
A tile designed for use as a roofing material.

CL architecture
BT tile
NT imbrex
NT pantile
NT ridge tile
NT tegula

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rope
A length of cord usually made from twisting fibres together which increases the strength of the rope.

CL unassigned

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rosary
A string of beads used to aid the memory in reciting a set of devotions.

RT prayer bead

CL religion or ritual
BT religious personal accessory

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rotary key
A lever lock key.

CL tools and equipment
BT key (locking)

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rotary quern
A quern where one stone is rotated on another to grind grain.

CL agriculture and subsistence
BT quern

CL tools and equipment
BT quern

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roughout
An intially worked object, prepared to be made into a final product.

CL manufacture and processing
NT axehead roughout
NT currency bar
NT millstone roughout
NT quern roughout

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rove
A small metal ring through which a nail or rivet is passed and fixed.

CL unassigned
BT fastening

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rowel

USE rowel spur

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rowel spur
A type of spur with the goad in the form of a rotating disc.

CL dress and personal accessories
BT spur

UF rowel
UF rowelspur

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rowelspur

USE rowel spur

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rowlock
A device on a boat's gunwale serving as a fulcrum for an oar and keeping it in place.

CL transport
BT water craft equipment

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rubber

USE polisher

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ruff
A projecting starched frill worn around the neck, especially 16th century.

CL dress and personal accessories
BT clothing accessory

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rug
A mat used on the floor as a covering.

CL furnishings and furniture
BT floor covering

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rule
A graduated length of material used for measuring distances.

CL measurement
NT foot rule
NT measuring rod

UF ruler

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ruler

USE rule

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rumbler bell

USE crotal

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rune stone
A stone inscribed or marked with runes.

RT divination stone

CL religion or ritual

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rush light
A light made by dipping a rush in grease.

CL heating and lighting
BT lighting object

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