ryal

or ri·al

[ rahy-uhl ]

noun

1. rose noble.
2. a former gold coin of Scotland, equal to 60 shillings.
3. a former silver coin of Scotland, equal to 30 shillings.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ryal¹

1350–1400; Middle English (Scots): royal

Example Sentences

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.

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

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How, indeed, can these common magaseen and newspaper pipple know anythink of fashnabble life, let alone ryal?

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They stayed within the town for fifteen days, sacking it utterly, to the last ryal.

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When they had extracted the last ryal from the sufferers they shipped themselves aboard some Spanish vessels lying in the port.

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