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ryot


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Ryot  \Ry"ot\  (r[imac]"[o^]t),  n.  [Ar.  &  Hind.  ra'iyat,  the  same 
  word  as  ra'iyah,  a  subject,  tenant,  peasant.  See  {Rayah}.] 
  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.