ryal

or ri·al

[ rahy-uhl ]

/ ˈraɪ əl /

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noun

rose noble.

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

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

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Origin of ryal

1350–1400; Middle English (Scots): royal

Words nearby ryal

rwd, Rwy., Rx, -ry, rya, ryal, Ryan, Ryazan, Rybinsk, Rybnik, Rydal

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.
The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer|Richard Clynton
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