Ringer

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈrɪŋə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋə(ɹ)

From ring("to sound a bell") + -er.

Full definition of ringer

Noun

1. Someone who rings, especially a bell ringer.
• 1863, Jean Ingelow, ,Pull, if ye never pull′d before;Good ringers, pull your best," quoth he.
2. (mining) A crowbar.

From ring ("to surround").

Noun

1. (games) In the game of horseshoes, the event of the horseshoe landing around the pole.
2. (uncountable, games) A game of marbles where players attempt to knock each other's marbles out of a ring drawn on the ground.

Probably from ring the changes.

Noun

1. (horse racing) A horse fraudently entered in a race using the name of another horse.
2. (sport) A person highly proficient at a skill or sport who is brought in, often fraudulently, to supplement a team.
3. A person, animal, or entity which resembles another so closely as to be taken for the other; now usually in the phrase dead ringer.

Derived terms

• dead ringer

Unknown.

Noun

1. (UK, dialect) A top performer.
2. (Australia) The champion shearer of a shearing shed.
3. (Australia) A stockman, a cowboy.
• 1964, Alec Bolton, Walkabout′s Australia, Walkabout magazine, %22ringers%22+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22ringer%22|%22ringers%22+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=d1YOUIfvEKi9iAe29oCIBw&redir_esc=y page 107,The ringers are the stockmen on a station. The cattle pass through their hands before the drovers lift them and take them along the stock routes that lead to the killing pens in cities.
• 1987, Geoffrey Atkinson, Philip Quirk. The Australian Adventure: The Explorer′s Guide to the Island Continent, %22ringers%22+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22ringer%22|%22ringers%22+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=d1YOUIfvEKi9iAe29oCIBw&redir_esc=y page 175,This vast holding is run by six ringers and six boys. A ringer is a qualified stationhand and a boy is a trainee. It takes four years for a boy to become a ringer.
• 2005, Jake Drake, The Wild West in Australia and America, %22ringers%22+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=d1YOUIfvEKi9iAe29oCIBw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22ringer%22|%22ringers%22%20australia%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 156,Most people associated with the Australian beef industry believe the ringer′s skill of throwing cattle by the tail to be a practice that is purely Australian. There is ample evidence however, that it was practised in South and Central America long before it was developed here.

Anagrams

• erring