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RIBATTUTA, Ital. in Mitjlc, is iterating, ftriking, kg; it ia performed by beating or itnking two diatonic 

 or founding the fame note again. notes, the one flow and the other quick, in the following 



Ribattuta di Go/a is one of the graces ufed in fing- manner. 



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It differs from the (hake and the beat. 

 RIBAUDEQUEM, in Ancient Artillery, a projectile 



machine ufed in the llth and 12th centuries, which was a 



large kind of crofs-bow : the crofs-bow was called in Latin 



balilta, and foraetimes mamihalilla. 



RIBAUVILLE', in Geography, a town of France, in 



the department of the Upper Rhine, and chief place of a 



canton, in the diftriCt of Colmar ; 6 miles N. of Colmar. 



The place contains 4950, and the canton 14,219 inhabitants, 



on a territory of 85 kiliomctres, in 9 communes. 



RIBBAND, or Ribbon d, a narrow fort of filk, chiefly 



ufed for head ornaments, badges of chivalry, &c. 



The knights of- the Garter wear a blue ribband ; thofe of 



the Thiltle, a green ribband, &c. fcarfwife. See Coi.i.ah, 



Gahter, &c. 

 Ribbands, Figured. See Figured. 

 Ribband, or Ribbon, in Heraldry, is the eighth part of 



a bend. (See the article Bend.) It is borne a little cut off 



from the outlines of the efcutcheon : thus ; he beareth or, 



a ribband, gules. 



Ribbands, from rib and band, in Ship Building, are long 



pieces of fir timber from four to eight inches fquare, ac- 

 cording to the lize of the fhip ; thele are nailed on at certain 

 heights to the frame timbers of the fquare body, as the 

 harpins, which are oak of the fame fize, are nailed to the 

 frames of the cant-bodies ; but the latter are fhaped to the 

 form of the body by moulds and bevelling. The ends of the 

 harpins forward are fattened againlt the (lem, and thofe abaft 

 againlt the ftern-polt or tra'ifoms; the ribbands then uniting 

 with the harpins, envelop the (hip lengthways, and being 

 judicioufly arranged, with regard to their diltanec from each 

 other, they not only fupport the filling-timbers, but by 

 being (hored at every frame, the whole fhip is fupported, and 

 kept to her true lhape, until the plank is brought on, as they 

 are in that cafe removed one at the time, the bottom being 

 fhored againft the planks above. The difference between 

 cant-ribbands and horizontal or fquare ribbands is, that the 

 latter are only ideal, and ufed in the laying-off. 

 RIBBING Naii.s. See Nail. 



RIBBLE, in Geography, a river of Lancafhire, England, 

 has its fource in the high moors of Craven, Yorkfhire, and 

 puffing the lofty mountains ol Ingleborough and Pennigaut, 

 enters the county of Lancaltrr near the town of Clitherhoe, 

 where it forms a boundary to the county. Taking a fouth- 

 wellern courfe, and receiving, in its progrefs through Lan- 

 cafhire, feveral fmaller ilreams, and the tributary rivers of 

 the Hodder, Calder, and Darwent, it pafles by Ribcheller 

 and Prelton. Soon after leaving the latter town it gradually 

 expands its dream, and in a few miles prelents a broad 

 eftuary, and unites its waters with the Inlh fea. At this 

 place, the ferry from North Theols to Lytham, it is about 

 five miles aerois at high water. This river is navigable, For 

 fmall coatlers, as high as Prelton, and was formerly capable 

 of conveying veflels much higher up the country. At 

 Prellon it is croffed by an aqueduft, for the Lajicallcr canal. 

 See Alton's Lancafhire Gazetteer, Beauties of England, 

 vol. ix. and Whitaker's Hillory, &C of Whalley, a,to. 



RIBBLING, in Agriculture, a term ufed in fomc diflri&s 

 to lignify a mode of ploughing Qmilar to that of ilob-fur- 



rowing. It is practifed in fomc northern counties as well as 

 thole of the fouth, and in the former appears tobetheonlv 

 kind ot winter fallow which is beneficial to lands of looff 

 texture. Every furrow that is turned over on a foot of 

 fohd ground, from the beginning to the end of the ridge, 

 that is every alternate furrow, is left untouched, and the 

 ploughed furrow is turned over above it, fo that the greateft 

 furface poffible is expofed to the ameliorating influence of 

 the atmofpherc, while, at the fame time, the loofe foil is out 

 of the reach of any little rills which may run down in the 

 different ruts. If the Hubble has been, in fome meafure, 

 luxuriant, and the ribbling done foon after the crop was taken 

 from the ground, the two ft rat a of ftubbles meeting and fer- 

 menting under cover of the rid furrow, form, it is fuppofed, 

 an aid to the fubfequent mauure, while the weeds are no lefs 

 fmothered than when the whole land is turned over by a com- 

 plete ploughing. Neverthelefs, it is believed, that when the 

 ufe of green crops becomes general, and the planting and 

 Hoeing of them are neatly performed by the plough, this 

 will flir the earth more perfectly, and pulverize and clean 

 the foil more completely than any winter fallow or ribbliiK- 

 can poflibly effect. Sec Tillage. 



RIBCHESTER, in Geography, a village and par.ifh in 

 the hundred of Blackburn, and county palatine of Lan- 

 callcr, England, is fituated at the diftance of live miles and 

 a half N.N.W. from the town of Blackburn, and eight miles 

 N.E. from Prellon. Though now comparatively an infigni- 

 hcant place, it was in Roman times an important and flourifh- 

 ing town. Much difpute has taken place among antiqua- 

 ries with refpect to the original name of this flation. Horfley 

 calls it the Coccium of Antoninus, and Camden the Rigo- 

 dunum of Ptolemy, the identity of which places is clearly 

 proved by the reafonings of Dr. Whitaker, in his Hillory 

 ot Whalley. (See CoCCIUM, in which arciele for Rilchejler 

 read Rtbche/leF.) Mr. Whitaker, the author of the Hiltoryot 

 Mancheller, however, contends that Ribcheller mult have 

 been the Rerigonium of Richard of Cirencelter, and places 

 Coccium at Blackrode. But whatever was the name of tin . 

 place, it was indubitably among the number of Agricola'* 

 ftations, and appears to have been not merely a military port, 

 but the ieat ot manufacturing and commercial profperitv.' 

 At that period the river Ribble was navigable as high as 



Coccium to veflels of no inconfiderable burden. Of this 

 tact, tradition, the veftiges of a dock, and numerous nautical 

 relit s, afford inconteftible proof. To the filling up of the 

 r\\Qv, by the gradual accumulation of land, is to be attri- 

 buted, in part at lealt, the decay of this place after 1: 

 abandonment by the Romans. Many votive Hones, and 

 others with inferiptions, have been found here. Of thefe 



Dr. Whitaker has printed nine, but they do not rurnifhany 

 thing interefting either with refpect to the place orthc people, 



Vanou:. imallcr antiquities have likevwlc fa 11 due, up here at 



different periods; fuch as filver and brafs coins, an intaglio n, 



a ruby, gold rings, 8tC. " But," to ufe the words of the 



lull. man ot Whalley, "the nobleit dif. ov.-rv ever made 

 here, or perhaps in Britain! was in the year [796, when the 



(helving bank of the Ribble cxpolcd the following remain-. 

 which teemed to have been depolitcd in an excavation ot : 

 earth, tilled up with foil of a different quality. Til 



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