spur-royal

English

Alternative forms

• spur-rial, spur-ryal

Noun

spur-royal (plural spur-royals)

1. (historical) A former English gold coin, first made in the reign of Edward IV, having a star on the reverse resembling the rowel of a spur.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “spur-royal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)