Rattlin (Jack).

A famous naval character in Smollett’s Roderick Random. Tom Bowling is another naval character in the same novel.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Rasiel
Raspberry
Rasselas
Rat
Rat (To)
Rat (Un)
Rat, Cat, and Dog
Rat-killer
Ratatosk
Ratten (To)
Rattlin (Jack)
Raul
Ravana
Ravelin (The) or demi-lune
Raven
Ravenglass (Cumberland)
Ravenstone
Ravenswood (Allan, Lord of)
Raw
Raw Lobster (A)
Rawhead and Bloody-Bones