ral

It is called ralá hípa ( "with the foot throw"), the word alluding to a ball used at the race.

Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan Carl Lumholtz 1886

Miss Atalanty, they say that one stone at the top -- a green stone, what they call an 'em'ral' -- was worth the price o 'a' Frisco house-lot.

Openings in the Old Trail Bret Harte 1869

The Gin'ral's 'ooman -- she's a' ooman fur me -- a hull team -- she makes him stan 'round, _I_ reckon.

The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

I'd no more'n got it inter my pocket, 'fore the Gin'ral's 'ooman pulled out a gold watch, two or three diamond pins, a ring or two, and some wimmin's fixin's, and says she,' See thar, _Mister_ Larkin, them's what

The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

'Well, ye knows the Gin'ral's a honerubble man; so, when he seed his

The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

Gin'ral'd sort o 'promised him ter har, and she'd been a savin' up ter buy him.

The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

But the Gin'ral's a honerubble man, and he didn't flinch a hair -- not a hair.

The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

"Voice like his, too!" muttered the Postilion, backing away still farther; "yes, onnat'ral's the word -- strike me dumb if it ain't!"

The Broad Highway Jeffery Farnol 1915

Her father, he did not love his -- the gen'ral's -- father.

Sonnie-Boy's People 1912

Don't seem nat'ral 'thout you clear through October.

The Man of the Desert Grace Livingston Hill 1906