Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In India, a peasant; a tenant of the soil; a cultivator; especially, one holding land as a cultivator or husbandman.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun India A peasant or cultivator of the soil.
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- noun A
farmer ortiller of the soil.
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Examples
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The Government was in the habit of collecting the land tax from the 'ryot' or peasant through a class of middle-men called 'talukd [= a] rs', [17] who had existed under the native princes for a long time.
Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore
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October 4, 2009 at 5:33 am ohai 2 minions! awn a unrelaytid note…did teh linkee wurk sew u cud see teh HH sawng? wuzza ryot, ai fowt!
mr binky dusnt liek you - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Reel reezun fur ryot: narsty Merikan cheez awn burgers.
chezbargr riot - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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And if there were a lack of competitors, the ridicule of fools would ryot deter us from hanging up a lifeless image and practising at that.
Laws 2006
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Our wreastling at armes, is turned to wallowyng in Ladies laps, our courage, to cowardice, our running to ryot, our Bowes into Bolles, and our Dartes to Dishes.
The More Things Change II Heo 2006
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In the Madras presidency a careful survey along the lines of local practice led to a system of direct levy (periodically reassessed) from the ryot (peasant), later extended to Bombay presidency (ryotwari system); in the Northwest and Central Provinces, somewhat later, a third type of revenue settlement, the mahalwari system, was introduced, collecting revenue through villages or estates.
1780-84 2001
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People among us who are capable of exercising astral clairvoyance in full perfection -- but have not yet been called away to higher functions in connexion with the promotion of human progress, of which ordinary humanity at present knows even less than an Indian ryot knows of cabinet councils -- are still very few.
The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria W. Scott-Elliot
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A ryot cultivating alluvial lands, and having no seed, can hardly ever repay his advances; but it does not follow that he has been a loser, for he, perhaps, could not value his time, labor, and rent altogether at half the amount; and as long as this system is kept within moderate bounds, it answers much better than private cultivation to the manufacturer, and has many contingent advantages to the cultivator.
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This is the second process of adulteration -- the ryot desiring to sell the drug as much drenched with oil as possible, the retailers at the same time refusing to purchase that which is thinner than half dried glue.
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It is the system known in India at this day as ryot-rent; the cultivator undertakes to give the owner a certain fixed quantity yearly from the produce of the farm, and all that is over belongs to himself.
The Parables of Our Lord William Arnot
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