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Rabblement – a collection of rabble; Rabblety, a small rabble (SB)

Rabbus – a door mat made from old canvas

Rack – a frame to hold hay for cattle (SB)

Rack, Reck – reckon (SB)

Rack-o'th-ee – reckoning by the eye (SB)

Rack o' muttn – a saddle of mutton (SB)

Rack an rend – to waste property: to destroy, to ruin (SB)

Rackenhook – an iron bar and a hook in the chimney on which to hang

a posnit above the fire

Raddle – to thrash: "AwIl raddle the bwons forthe." (SB)

Raddler – a heavy dancing step

Raddlin – thrashing, beating; also a rod of hazel or other young wood (SB)

Raddlins – pliant rods (SB)

Raddlt – thrashed (SB)

Rafflecoppin – a careless, roistering fellow

Raggot – a ragged vagabond (SB)

Rake or Reawke – to place together, to collect, to rake into one place; "Rake th' foyer," to pull it together before going to rest: "Rake that mud," collect it together with a rake. (SB)

Ram-jam full – stuffed full ‘Mi basket’s ram jam full’

Ramshackle – anything made up of odds and ends

Rantipow – ranting, wild talk, declamation

Rap an rend – to waste, to destroy property (SB)

Rape an teer – the same (SB)

Rapscallion – a mischievous youngster; a petty rascal (SB)

Rascot – a rascal (SB)

Rash – an irruption on the skin (SB)

Rasher – a slice of bacon a steak of beef (SB)

Ratch – to stretch, to extend: also that space in a loom betwixt the yarn-beam and the healds (SB)

Rachda, – Rochdale, anciently called Recedham; in Anglo-Saxon, Recedóm, a chief office, office of legislator.

Ratchin – stretching

Ratliv or Ratlif – Radcliffe, near Bury (SB)

Ratliffe-bridge – Radcliffe bridge, a village near the ancient Racliffe

Rattle – to scold, to talk much; Rattlt, scolded, talked much; Rattlin, talking (SB)

Ratt’n, rott’n – a rat

Rattnsta or Rawtnsta – Rawtenstall, near Haslingden (SB)

Ray-gull – a not over sagacious magistrate

Rayley – really ‘An’ aw rayley did feel rather hurt’

Rayther – rather ‘When growin’ up, an’ rather smart’

Reawnd – round

Reawk – to gather together; to meet in neighbours' houses, and spend time in idle gossip (SB)

Reawkin – meeting together; Reawkt – collected, rooked; Reawknt – they collected together (SB)

Reawly – sleepy, muzzy, unwashed (SB)

Reawm – a room (SB)

Reawnd – round (SB)

Reawp – a hoarse cold (SB)

Reawst – rust; Reawsty – rusty (SB)

Reawt – rout; Reawted – routed; Reawtin – routing (SB)

Reawtn – they rout (SB)

Reawtnt – they routed (SB)

Reawt – rout, direction, way (SB)

Reawze – to rouse, to awaken (SB)

Red Tum nook – a place at Oldham (SB)

Redivas – Redvales, near Bury (SB)

Reddyd – readied; Reddy, to make ready: "Reddy that yed," make that head ready, that is, comb the hair with the larger comb, preparatory to the smaller one (SB)

Ree – after; Ree-supper – a second supper (SB)

Reeap – to revive or recall something against a person ‘To reap it op’

Reech – smoke ‘He poo’d a reech o’ bacco eawt’

Reech – reek, smoke, vapour (SB)

Reechin – giving out smoke (SB)

Reechn – they smoke (SB)

Reechnt – they smoked (SB)

Reechy – smoky (SB)

Reer – to rear, to set on end,to bring up: "Theyn never reer it;" also to lean against: "He reert it agen th' wa'." (SB)

Reert – reared: "Hoo sat reert op, like Lunnun pewter," a jeer at a finely dressed, lazy, ignorant, woman, who sits in her chair motionless from pride, and thoughtless from stupidity (SB)

Reest, Reast – rusted, smoke-dried, discoloured: "Reest bacon." (SB)

Reet – right ‘An’ tho’ man fails i’ justice, God does reet!’

Reetn – they right (SB)

Reighton, Reight’n – Royton, a village

Reisty – rancid, ‘Reisty bacon’

Reitch, reytch – reach ‘Aw reytch deawn mi pipe’

Reives— reivers, thieves

Render – to melt, to separate the fat from the skinny parts of suet or pork (SB)

Rent – to tear; Rent – torn (SB)

Rentin – tearing; Rentn – they tear; Rentnt – they tore (SB)

Rey – raw (SB)

Reytch – to reach, to touch a thing (SB)

Reyther – rather, given to, tending to; Reytherist – most given to: "Reyther byth' reytherist," is a common expression, meaning, rather tending to the greatest tendency. (SB)

Rhism – a small piece ‘Aw havn’t a rhism o’ ‘bacco’

Rhute – a passion, a paroxism of anger: "He went away in a great rhute." (SB)

Rib (owd) – wife ‘It’s slavered on th’ owd rib’

Rick – to make a noise, to jingle; also to scold; also a hay-rick (SB)

Richin – making a noise; making a hay-rick (SB)

Ricklin – the smallest of a family, or of a litter of young pigs; the youngest of a hatch, or of a family (SB)

Ridd – to seperate combatants; to place two things apart (SB)

Riddance – a quittance having done with a thing (SB)

Riddlin’ – understanding ‘There’s no riddlin’ some folks’

Riffraff – rubbish

Rift – to belch; Rifted – belched; Riftn – they belch; Riftnt – they belched (SB)

Rig – the shoulders ‘Get it on to thi rig’

Riggot – a channel or gutter (SB)

Rindle – a small stream of water (SB)

Rive – tear ‘I’ll rive him out, bi’ t’ scuft o’ t’ neck’; to twist, to bend (SB)

Riven – rived, twisted, broken (SB)

Roange – to shout angrily

Robin-run-ith'-hedge – a medical plant (SB)

Robin Hood-bed – a large block of stone, probably an ancient altar, on the top of Blackstonedge, above Littleborough (SB)

Rockcliffe-lumme – near Bacup (SB)

Ronk – rank, luxuriant (SB)

Rood – a rod, a measure of ground 5½ yards; also a place where a cross once stood, as Brimrood, Oakenrood, near Rochdale (SB)

Roodilee – nr. Todmorden (SB)

Roof – rough (SB)

Roofer – rougher.

Rook – a heap,the lot ‘It’s th’ nicest cheer i’ th’ rook’ (SB)

Rook – a heap, a number together, as, "a rook o' stones." (SB)

Rookin, reawkin – collecting together; Rookn – they collect; Rooknt – they collected. (SB)

Rooly – a place nr. Rochdale; Rooly-moor, near the same. (SB)

Roor – roar; Roorin – roaring; Roort – roared. (SB)

Roorn, they roar. (SB)

Roortn – they roared. (SB)

Roost – praise ‘This rascot roost meh bitch to the verra to the verra Welkin’

Rooze – to arouse; also to praise, to puff up: "He geet roozt rarely." (SB)

Rops – the entrails, bowels

Rote – to rot, to decay (SB)

Rotein – rotting (SB)

Rotten – a rat, also rotten, decayed (SB)

Rowl – to roll; Rowlin – rolling; Rowlt – rolled (SB)

Rowley – roller; Rowlin-pin – a roller to make paste (SB)

Royd – road; Dane-royd, Dane-road; Mythomroyd, Mythomroad; Murgatroyd, Moorgate road (SB)

Royle – (perhaps from the Celtic, ar haul, the sun; pronounced ar oyle), the name of a hill in Thornham near Middleton (SB)

Royley – near Royton (SB)

Rudd – red; Ruddmon – red man; also to rutt, to spawn, as "twod-rudd." (SB)

Ruefo, rueful (SB)

Ruffin – ruffian; Ruffin-lone, a lane at Middleton (SB)

Rumpus – bother, a row

Runaberr – running to get a force, an impetus: "a berr." (SB)

Runagate – a person not following regular employment, and ready to run at any one's bidding; an idle, unattached person. (SB)

Runge – a long tub with two handles (obs.) (SB)

Runt – a dwarf, a stunted animal or tree. (SB)

Runted – stunted (SB)

Rowl, rowlt – roll, rolled ‘Rowl away, theaw grand owd ocean’

Rushbearin – rushbearing, an annual custom of carrying rushes to the parish church on the anniversary of its dedication (SB)

Rushcart – a cart loaded with rushes, arranged in tasteful form, and taken as an offering to the parish church (SB)

Rush-hoyle – a hollow, bearing rushes

Rutt – a track of wheels (SB)

Rutchot o' Jack's – Richard of John's, vide Tummus an Meary (SB)

Ryem or Cryem – cream (SB)

Ryem-mug or Cryem-mug – cream-mug (SB)

Ryemin – foaming (SB)

Ryen – a narrow channel or foot-path (SB)

Ryep – a rap of yarn, part of a hank (SB)

Rynty – stand off, probably from "aroynt thee," the common abjuration addressed to a witch or demon (SB)

Ryest or Reest – rancid, strong flavoured (SB)