In reverse gear the wheel turns backward.

Cauld winter wi' his scowdering eye Frore burning o'er the blue, blue sky

“Does that mean we have to go out in those small boats?” he asked of Sherwood […] . “Nothing less! But buck up, old man, and don’t go batchy, as these whalers call it!”

The incumbent is called in old records Dean of the King's freechapel of St.Burian.