ryal

[ rahy-uhl ]

/ ˈraɪ əl /

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

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

QUIZZES

In effect, this quiz will prove whether or not you have the skills to know the difference between “affect” and “effect.”

Question 1 of 7

The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.

1350–1400; Middle English (Scots): royal

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