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Webster 1913 Edition

(rī′ŏt)

Noun.

[Ar. & Hind.

ra’iyat

, the same word as

ra'iyah

, a subject, tenant, peasant. See

A peasant or cultivator of the soil.

[India]

The Indian

ryot

and the Egyptian fellah work for less pay than any other laborers in the world.

The Nation.

Noun.

In Hindoostan, a renter of land by a lease which is considered as perpetual, and at a rate fixed by ancient surveys and valuations.