tical
noun
a former silver coin and monetary unit of Siam, equal to 100 satang: replaced in 1928 by the baht.
ticals
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pluralof tical.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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And when I approached her owners they offered no objections to earning a few-score extra ticals by extending her itinerary so as to drop me at the tiny Cambodian port of Kep.
From Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China by E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell
His private charities amounted annually to ten thousand ticals.
From The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok by Anna Harriette Leonowens
I accepted the condition; and even promised that if I saw the nuggets of pure gold that Gabriel's chickens pecked, I would immediately accommodate him with the ten ticals to invest in a screw-driver.
From The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok by Anna Harriette Leonowens
A chowfa might receive, in the aggregate, from five hundred thousand to a million ticals.
From The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok by Anna Harriette Leonowens
In the first place, the Siamese government voluntarily reduced the measurement duties on foreign shipping from nineteen hundred to one thousand ticals per fathom of ship's beam.
From The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok by Anna Harriette Leonowens
