-ry
variant of -ery.
-ry
1 American
Ry.
2
American
abbreviation
-ry
British
suffix
Etymology
Origin of -ry
Middle English -rie < Old French; short form of -ery
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Sir Henry Thornton, potent president of Canadian National Ry. gave them a banquet in Montreal.
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Bus and trolley service was abandoned and only the Southern Ry. continued running out of town.
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He headed the Long Island until, during the War, he was called in to make efficient the Great Eastern Ry. of Great Britain.
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Last week they found him in the person of Herbert Fitzpatrick, vice-president & general counsel of Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. and the most trusted Van Sweringen advisor.
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Going south through Kansas City over the M. K. T. Ry., to Denison, Texas, she passed eastward by rail to Bells, through Paris to Clarksville, Texas; and thence northward forty miles to Wheelock and Lukfata.
From The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy by Robert Elliott Flickinger
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