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-ry

1 American  
  1. variant of -ery.

    heraldry; husbandry; dentistry; tenantry; jewelry.


Ry. 2 American  

abbreviation

  1. Railway.


-ry British  

suffix

  1. a variant of -ery

    dentistry

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of -ry

Middle English -rie < Old French; short form of -ery

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Twelve years ago, bewhiskered old Leonor F. Loree wanted to merge his Kansas City Southern Ry. with the Missouri-Kansas-Texas and the St. Louis Southwestern railroads.

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Sir Henry Thornton, potent president of Canadian National Ry. gave them a banquet in Montreal.

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An Irishman from Dublin, he got his start in Canadian Pacific Ry., made a fortune in Montreal utilities, another fortune in textiles.

From Time Magazine Archive

Off to the R. R. shop at 7:30 to touch up the iron malamute which carries mail and passengers to Fairbanks . . . the Ry. stamp mills for the Willow Creek gold mines.

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S.-E. of Ry. culvert about 4-3/4 miles S.-E. of Istabulat Station, T.C.

From With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia 1916—1917 by Anonymous

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