The 1944 Bletchley Park Cryptographic Dictionary

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REGISTER, v :

To enter particulars of (messages) on a register (q.v.)

REHASH, v :

(especially). To rearrange lines or columns of (a subtractor) so as to produce a new subtractor.

RE-HAT v :

To hat afresh, i.e. in a different order.

REHATTED :

Having the same numbers, letters, or groups in a different hatted arrangement.

REINCODING :

(Misused for re-encipherment).

REJECT, v :

(of an Enigma message). To crash with one or more of the possible variants of a crib. (To reject well is to crash with many or all but one of the possible crib-variants; to reject bad1y is to crash with few or none of them.

REJECTOR :

An Enigma message considered with regard to the extent to which it crashes with the alternative versions of a crib.

RELINEATION :

Rearrangement of line or margin numbers; (app. = remargination).

REMARGINED :

(of a code-book). Having two figures of the code-groups altered, especially by a rehatting of the margin numbers.

REMARGINATION :

Action or process of renumbering the margins, i.e. altering two figures of the groups in the code.

REPAGED :

(of a code-book). Having the page-numbers altered, and consequently all figures except two (normally the last two) of the code groups changed.

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