inringn.
Scottish. Curling.
A shot in which the player's stone is made to hit the inside of another stone so as to glance from it and hit the winner, taking it out and lying shot itself: now more usually termed inwick.
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inring1789
outwick1805
inwick1820
wick1823
witter shot1823
outring1824
inturn1890
out-turn1890
stug1897
draw1902
draw shot1902
in-curl1903
out-curl1903
long slide1936
slide1950
peel1984
1789 D. Davidson Thoughts Seasons 169 (Jam.) Syne hurling..Wi' inrings nice and fair He struck the winner frae the cock.
1789 D. Davidson Thoughts Seasons 171 (Jam.) Here stands the winner..Immoveable save by a nice inring.
1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. at Inwick To inwick a stone..is different from a common open inring, the two are often confounded with other, but they are quite different.
Derivatives
inringing n. playing an inring.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > curling > [noun] > actions
inwicking1823
outwicking1830
butting1831
inringing1831
guarding1897
promotion1897
takeout1927
1831 in Blackwood's Mag. 30 970 Wicking—or In-ringing, the prettiest and most scientific point in the game by far..taking an inner angle off a side-shot, in such a manner as to change and direct the course of your stone upon the one to be projected—or else to effect the same, when the case permitted, by drawing off the said shot.
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