ryal
Americannoun
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a former gold coin of Scotland, equal to 60 shillings.
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a former silver coin of Scotland, equal to 30 shillings.
Etymology
Origin of ryal
1350–1400; Middle English (Scots): royal
Example Sentences
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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.
From On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. by Masefield, John
How, indeed, can these common magaseen and newspaper pipple know anythink of fashnabble life, let alone ryal?
From The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush by Thackeray, William Makepeace
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