To ring A peal.  To scold; chiefly applied to women. 
  His wife rung him a fine peal!

Ring the changes.  When a person receives silver in
  change to shift some good shillings and put bad ones in
  their place.  The person who gave the change is then
  requested to give good shillings for these bad ones.

Rip.  A miserable rip; a poor, lean, worn-out horse.  A
  shabby mean fellow.

RIPPONS.  Spurs:  Rippon is famous for a manufactory of
  spurs both for men and fighting cocks.

ROARATORIOS and UPROARS.  Oratorios and operas.

Roaring boy.  A noisy, riotous fellow.

Roarer.  A broken-winded horse.

Roaring trade.  A quick trade.

To roast. To arrest.  I’ll roast the dab; I’ll arrest the
  rascal.—­Also to jeer, ridicule, or banter.  He stood the
  roast; he was the butt.—­Roast meat clothes; Sunday or
  holiday-clothes.  To cry roast meat; to boast of one’s
  situation.  To rule the roast; to be master or paramount.

Roast and boiled. A nick name for the Life Guards,
  who are mostly substantial house-keepers; and eat daily
  of roast and boiled.

Robert’s men.  The third old rank of the canting crew,
  mighty thieves, like Robin Hood.

Roby Douglass, with one eye and a stinking breath.  The
  breech.

Rochester portion.  Two torn smocks, and what nature gave.

Rocked. He was rocked in a stone kitchen; a saying
  meant to convey the idea that the person spoken of is a
  fool, his brains having been disordered by the jumbling of
  his cradle.

Roger.  A portmanteau; also a man’s yard.  Cant.

Roger, or TIB of the buttery.  A goose.  Cant.  Jolly
  Roger; a flag hoisted by pirates.

To roger.  To bull, or lie with a woman; from the name
  of Roger being frequently given to a bull.

Rogues.  The fourth order of canters.  A rogue in grain;
  a great rogue, also a corn chandler.  A rogue in spirit; a
  distiller or brandy merchant.

ROGUM POGUM, or DRAGRUM POGRAM.  Goat’s beard,
  eaten for asparagus; so called by the ladies who gather
  cresses, &c. who also deal in this plant.

ROMBOYLES.  Watch and ward.  Romboyled; sought after
  with a warrant.

Rome mort.  A queen.

Romeville.  London.  Cant.

Romp.  A forward wanton girl, a tomrig.  Grey, in his
  notes to Shakespeare, derives it from arompo, an animal
  found in South Guinea, that is a man eater.  See hoyden.

Rook.  A cheat:  probably from the thievish disposition of
  the birds of that name.  Also the cant name for a crow
  used in house-breaking.  To rook; to cheat, particularly
  at play.