ryal

or ri·al

[ rahy-uhl ]

noun
  1. a former gold coin of Scotland, equal to 60 shillings.

  1. a former silver coin of Scotland, equal to 30 shillings.

Origin of ryal

1
1350–1400; Middle English (Scots): royal

Words Nearby ryal

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How to use ryal in a sentence

  • You are trying to run your ryal car on a democratic gauge, and you'll either run off the track or you'll bust your biler.

  • That lawyer of ryal Phelps is goin to let pop have some money and were both goin to send for cloessome duds!

    Ruth Fielding In the Saddle | Alice B. Emerson
  • How, indeed, can these common magaseen and newspaper pipple know anythink of fashnabble life, let alone ryal?

    Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush | William Makepeace Thackeray
  • They stayed within the town for fifteen days, sacking it utterly, to the last ryal.

    On the Spanish Main | John Masefield
  • When they had extracted the last ryal from the sufferers they shipped themselves aboard some Spanish vessels lying in the port.

    On the Spanish Main | John Masefield