Trail:

Glossary

Ramped
Of a stair-rail, dado etc: with a steep concave curve just short of the newel, or in line with it.
Random rubble
Masonry whose stones are wholly or partly in a rough state and laid in a random pattern. Coursed: coursed stones with rough faces. Random: uncoursed stones. Snecked: with courses broken by smaller stones (snecks).
Ratcourse
(Scots): Projecting string-course on a doocot (dovecote) to deter rats.
Rath
(Irish): Circular or near-circular enclosure consisting of one or more earthen (or occasionally stone) banks, classified according to the number of surrounding ditches as univallate, bivallate or trivallate. Most date from early Christian times and housed single farms or served as cattle enclosures for farms. Also called ring forts.
Rebate
Rectangular section cut out of a masonry edge to receive a shutter, door, window, etc.
Rebus
A heraldic pun, e.g. a fiery cock for Cockburn.
Reeding
Series of convex mouldings, the reverse of fluting.
Refectory
Dining hall of a monastery, college or similar establishment.
Regency
London E3
Used generally for the late Georgian architecture of c. 1800-30, which favoured thinner or more summary classical detail than the 18th-century norm. (Vogue Regency refers to its revival as a fashionable style of the 1920s-50s.)
Reinforced
Of concrete: incorporating steel rods to take the tensile force.