ringern.1
/ˈrɪŋə/, U.S. /ˈrɪŋər/ I. Senses related to the making of a resonant sound.
1.
a. A person who makes something ring; esp. = bell-ringer n.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > bell-ringer > [noun]
ringerc1425
bell-ringer1543
toller1550
knoller1611
stretch-rope1634
college youth1668
change ringer1756
handbell ringera1802
tintinnabulary1825
tintinnabulist1830
treble-ringer1899
c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 5 (MED) The seker shall fynde and the rynger or knokker shall entre.
1431 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 205 (MED) Also payed For..syngers and Rynggers..and For þe prossessyouns and dyryges, xiij s. iiij d.
1481 in J. P. Collier Househ. Bks. John Duke of Norfolk & Thomas Earl of Surrey (1844) 126 Item, to the ryngers of seynt Tanlonys cherch iiij.d.
1531 in J. W. Clay Testamenta Eboracensia (1902) VI. 24 In brede and aill to the ringers.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. T. More in tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis 110 In thee chappel hee was..such a lowd singer, in a thowsand not such a ringer.
1683 T. Tryon Way to Health 481 We have no need of those robustick Musitians, viz. Ringers, to call the People to worship.
1707 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1886) II. 34 Dr. John Blackborne..was formerly noted for a great Ringer.
1813 W. Shipway Campanologia i. 98 Let a ringer choose what method he will, it must still be on Stedman's principle.
1844 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit xlvi. 537 The ringers were practising in a neighbouring church.
1853 Amer. Jrnl. Dental Sci. Apr. 512 It may be there are some who would not object to being visited by twenty such as the mysterious ringer at the door of the Paris dentist.
1880 C. A. W. Troyte in G. Grove Dict. Music I. 219/2 [The bell] would in swinging past that point raise the rope; this gives the ringer a second pull.
1911 in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. XLVII. 299 The thickness of the rope should in reality be determined not by the weight of the bell, but by the force of the ringer in pulling.
1955 Househ. Guide & Almanac (News of World) 269/1 Ringers assess their ability by the number of true peals they have rung and the variety of methods.
2001 K. Clark Irish Bk. Shadows v. xxii. 257 I am the ringer of bells in cities long lost.
b. A mechanical device or apparatus for causing a bell to ring.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > part(s) of
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Jack1498
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Jack of the clockhouse1563
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snail-work1591
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winder1606
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hour-wheel1704
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step-wheel1714
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train1751
crutch1753
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rising board1769
remontoire1774
escapement1779
clock jack1784
locking plate1786
scapement1789
motion work1795
anchor escapement1798
scape1798
star-wheel1798
recoil escapement1800
recoiling pallet1801
recoiling scapement1801
cannon1802
hammer-tail1805
recoiling escapement1805
bottle jack1810
renovating spring1812
quarter-boy1815
pin tooth1817
solar wheel1819
impulse-teeth1825
pendulum wheel1825
pallet arbor1826
rewinder1826
rack hook1829
snail-wheel1831
quarter bell1832
tow1834
star pulley1836
watch train1838
clock train1843
raising-piece1843
wheelwork1843
gravity escapement1850
jumper1850
vertical escapement1850
time train1853
pin pallet1860
spade1862
dead well1867
stop-work1869
ringer1873
strike-or-silent1875
warning-piece1875
guard-pin1879
pendulum cock1881
warning-lever1881
beat-pin1883
fusee-piece1884
fusee-snail1884
shutter1884
tourbillion1884
tumbler1884
virgule1884
foliot1899
grasshopper1899
grasshopper escapement1899
trunk1899
pin lever1908
clock spring1933
1873 Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers' Monthly Jrnl. (U.S.) 7 431 (advt.) We respectfully invite your attention to the West Steam Bell Ringer, as a practical and economic method of ringing Locomotive Engine Bells by steam.
1889 Electr. Rev. (U.S.) 14 Dec. 3/1 A novel feature of this bell is that the ringer and gongs are inside of the case.
1922 Northeastern Reporter 132 389/1 The engine was equipped with an an automatic ringer.
2005 Parrots Apr. 47/2 It is always advisable to check that any toys you purchase are ‘bird safe’. Check that the ringer in bells is secure, for example.
c. A device which rings or produces a ringing sound, esp. on a telephone.
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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > telephone equipment > [noun] > telephone > parts of telephone
induction coil1837
ferrotype1857
telephone receiver1875
mouthpiece1877
receiver1877
microphone1878
telephone trumpet1879
magneto bell1882
magneto call bella1884
rest1883
hook1885
receptor1898
telephone dial1898
ringer1899
dial1900
Button A (or B)1922
switch hook1922
phone bell1924
hybrid coil1925
cradle1929
dial wheel1938
hybrid transformer1941
scriber1968
fascia1973
1899 ‘J. Flynt’ Tramping with Tramps iv. 384 I goes over 'n' toots the ringer.
1923 Bell Syst. Techn. Jrnl. 2 132 With this arrangement of apparatus, any ‘ringer’..may be connected temporarily to the system by means of ‘patching’ cords.
1961 Which? Oct. 250/1 Two cookers..had ringers which could be set to sound an alarm up to 5 hours after being set.
2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 2 Mar. (Styles section) 1/1 I took a real day off this weekend: computers shut down, cellphone left in my work bag, land-line ringer off.
2. U.S. colloquial. A resounding cheer. rare.
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1903 Rep. Kansas State Board Agric. 1901–2 iii. 360 The air was rent with cheers. Auctioneer Judy called for a..ringer for..[the man] who had sold the highest-priced beef steer in the world.
II. Extended senses.
3.
a. Australian and New Zealand slang. An expert.
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the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [noun] > skilful person > expert
grand master1590
adept1674
dab1691
dabster1708
dab hand1828
dead-hand1848
ringer1848
expert1853
skull1880
1848 Port Phillip Herald 20 June 2/7 Another Melbourne ‘Ringer’ named Edwards has proceeded to Sydney, resolved to defeat his man there as well as Sinclair.
1891 D. Ferguson Bush Life xxviii. 203 Crawford was now in his element, and ‘ringer’ of the board.
1923 ‘B. L. Standish’ Lego Lamb, Southpaw iii. 26 ‘That guy's a ringer,’ declared Shultz.
c1926 ‘Mixer’ Transport Workers' Song Bk. 24 For I'm classed among the ‘ringers’, And from others stand apart.
1965 Telegraph (Brisbane) 5 July 8 Ringer (the best—old shearing-shed term later adopted by townies).
1981 Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.) 24 Jan. 7 The best men on the killing board [c 1914] called the Ringers were Ellis and Pettit.
b. Australian and New Zealand. The fastest sheep-shearer in a shed. Also in extended use.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > [noun] > sheep-shearer > shearing highest number
ringer1871
1871 ‘R. Boldrewood’ in Cornhill Mag. Jan. 85 The ‘Ringer’, or fastest shearer of the whole assembly.
1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms I. ix. 110 Jim..was trying to shear sheep and sheep with the ‘ringer’ of the shed.
1890 Braidwood Disp. 26 Nov. 2/2 Wallaby drive... The country..was thoroughly scoured with the result that no less than 250 of the marsupial pests were destroyed. Mr John Gumel was ‘ringer’ with 26, Mr McWilliams being close up with 23.
1927 M. M. Bennett Christison of Lammermoor xxii. 193 With the new shearing machines a hundred sheep a day were shorn easily, while ringers scored over two hundred.
1949 B. O'Reilly Green Mountains 245 The guns fell silent; the wallabies which had not fallen had escaped through the line. A count was made and the man with the biggest bag was proclaimed ‘ringer’.
1952 J. Cleary Sundowners iii. 138 By the end of the day he wanted to be the ‘ringer’ shearer.
1990 J. E. Martin Forgotten Worker 48 Bob Tutaki..was a gun shearer... He first joined the union in 1906 when he was the ringer of the sixteen-stand Moawhango shed outside Taihape.
c. Australian slang. Something superlatively good. Now rare.
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1891 Truth (Sydney) 1 Feb. 6/5 I'd like to see the mill, for it will be a ringer if the officials let them fight to a fair decision.
1904 Truth (Sydney) 2 Oct. 1/7 The sugar season is a ringer; 11,000 or 12,000 tons of sugar are being shipped weekly.
4. slang.
a. A person who fraudulently substitutes one thing for another; spec. (originally U.S.) a person who fraudulently substitutes a horse, athlete, etc., for another in a competition or sporting event. Now rare. ringer of changes: see ring v.1 17b.
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1858 Amer. Freemason Nov. 341/1 He knew what dummies meant, as well as the most expert cracksman or ringer of changes in town.
1862 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) Extra vol. 295/2 Entering a beershop in the neighbourhood of St. Giles, close by the Seven Dials, we saw a band of coiners and ringers of changes.
1877 Spirit of Times 24 Nov. 448/2 While Hicks & Co. were engaged in the laudable cause of exposing the iniquitous ringers in Boston, they should not have overlooked Dolly Davis, Easter Maid, by Almont, and her performances near Boston.
1890 Stock Grower & Farmer 9 Aug. 8/2 At the same time ‘Andy Croker’ is the most notorious ‘ringer’ on the turf.
1938 M. Lane Edgar Wallace iii. v. 304 He was an attractive young man, known in his own profession as ‘Ringer’ Barrie for his ability to ring the changes of disguise on race-horses.
2004 D. Ashforth Ringers & Rascals Introd. 11 The first serial ringer was Benjamin A. Chilson, a California blacksmith who, setting an example for future exponents of the practice, often ‘rang’ himself as well as his horses.
b. British slang. A criminal who fraudulently changes the identity of a motor vehicle.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > [noun] > of motor vehicles, using false registration
ringer1965
1965 Sunday Times 11 July (Mag.) 10/1 Fred the ringer: he was the one that initiated the scheme. He owned the premises where the job was done, and he got the final profits.
1970 P. Laurie Scotl. Yard iii. 69 All the ringer has to do is buy a [car] key, come along as innocent as pie, open the door and drive off to wherever he does his ringing.
1971 Drive Summer 21/2 When the professionals—the car ‘ringers’—get to work, the profit on a skilfully doctored vehicle can be more than £500.
1993 G. F. Newman Law & Order (rev. ed.) 142 The ringer he had in mind for the two cars they would need had a car-breaking business at the Elephant and Castle.
2002 Independent 28 Jan. 9/4 The ‘ringers’ need registration documents to profit from their crimes..the checks will deny these to them.
5.
a. Originally U.S. A person or thing that looks very like another; a double. Chiefly with for. Frequently in dead ringer (cf. the dead ring at ring n.2 7).
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the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [noun] > one who resembles another
the secondc1386
similitudec1405
likenessa1500
resembler1570
similar1653
resemblance1794
ringer1878
1878 Weekly Register-call (Central City, Colorado) 6 Sept. 1/4 The knight of La Mancha storming a wind mill, is a ‘dead ringer’, so to speak, for Windy Bill riding down a phalanx of Mexicans on a long-eared mule.
1891 Sporting Times (N.Y.) 4 July 10/4 Homan is a ‘dead-ringer’ for Anson.
1903 ‘O. Henry’ in Ainslee's Mar. 129/2 The man was a ringer for the pictures of the fat Weary Willie in the funny papers.
1916 J. Buchan Greenmantle xiii. 174 Now you're in these pretty clothes you're the dead ringer of the brightest kind of American engineer.
1934 D. Hammett in Collier's 13 Jan. 12/1 ‘Look’, he said out of the side of his mouth, ‘that's a ringer for the guy we got—’ ‘That's the guy’, I said, and we went down the steps behind him.
1946 New Yorker 16 Mar. 22/1 The Nissen hut..which were [sic] dead ringers for the council lodges the Iroquois Indians used to build.
1959 Punch 21 Oct. 251/1 He [sc. a shark] has life pretty easy and apart from the gill-rakers is a ringer for Patrick Joseph.
1973 C. Sagan Cosmic Connection xiii. 92 There is little doubt that the average person's view of Hell—sizzling, choking, sulfurous, and red—is a dead ringer for the surface of Venus.
1985 R. Curtis & B. Elton Blackadder II in R. Curtis et al. Blackadder: Whole Damn Dynasty (1998) 145/1 I have been wondering..why you should think that Baldrick with a bag on his head is going to be a dead ringer for Lord Farrow.
2005 Independent 19 Jan. (Property section) 13/4 There is another ticket inspector, a ringer for Micky Dolenz of The Monkees, whose name is Simon de Montfort.
b. A horse, athlete, etc., fraudulently substituted for another in a competition, esp. a more skilled competitor brought in to provide an unfair advantage or more advantageous odds. Also: a highly proficient person brought in to augment the powers of a group.
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society > leisure > sport > player or sportsperson > [noun] > fraudulently substituted player
ringer1885
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > horse by performance > fraudulently substituted
ringer1885
1885 Atchison (Kansas) Daily Globe 2 Oct. A few weeks since Corum Young and Ernst Young put up $100 each on a horse race, and Corum Young claims that Ernst Young ‘run in a ringer’ on him and won his money.
1900 J. Scott Tales Colonial Turf 222 He fumed at being beaten..winding up his vituperation by saying that [the racehorse] was a ringer from Australia.
1928 E. Foy & A. F. Harlow Clowning through Life 188 We had scarcely made the match when we were given a secret tip that Bennett was a ‘ringer’.
1966 Listener 27 Oct. 613/3 He rode third in a regimental steeplechase: the winning horse was later found to be a ringer.
1973 B. Broadfoot Ten Lost Years xxi. 240 Some teams used to bring in ringers, a Yankee, or a guy from the East.
1980 Times 11 Mar. 6 The Crown claimed that the horse had been switched and that the winner was in fact a ‘ringer’, a more successful stablemate called Cobblers March.
1997 C. Butts Is Harry on Boat? (2001) iv. 101 The turnout for the football match was low. Apart from Brad, Greg, Mikey and Mario, the only clients willing to play were two of the Plymouth Possee. A few ringers were roped in, but the British Rail team still thrashed YF&S 6–2.
2006 R. Nerz Eat this Bk. i. 13 The local eaters were going up against professionals—‘ringers’ brought in from out of town.
c. U.S. An outsider or intruder; a phoney person or thing; an impostor; spec. (now historical) a person who attaches himself or herself to a political or other group to which he or she does not belong, or who votes in a district where he or she does not reside.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [noun] > one who or that which dissembles
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simular1526
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would-be1607
phantasm1622
farce1696
imposture1699
Barmecide1713
simulator1835
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fake1855
swindle1858
shammer1861
make-believe1863
hoax1869
economizer1874
make-believer1884
ringer1896
phoney1902
faker1910
shill1976
society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [noun] > one who is separated or isolated > stranger or outsider
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guestc950
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exoteric1697
outner1721
outsider1800
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inconnu1807
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offcome1859
ringer1896
offcomer1898
shenzi1910
out-grouper1938
outworlder1948
1896 G. Ade Artie xi. 100 About a dozen ringers followed us in and stood around rubberin'.
1904 N.Y. Tribune 18 Oct. 1 The members of the Manhattan & Democratic clubs occupied front seats. The press seats were largely occupied by ringers.
1904 N.Y. Tribune 8 Nov. 3 The Democratic leaders to-day started to send a lot of alleged ‘ringers’ across the line into West Virginia to vote to-morrow.
1926 Clues Nov. 162/1 Ringer, one who butts in on another's racket.
1928 Manch. Guardian Weekly 26 Oct. 335/2 Perhaps seventy-five were really newspaper men and women, the others being what the American language calls ‘ringers’, ‘gate-crashers’, or ‘dead-heads’.
1940 P. G. Wodehouse Eggs, Beans & Crumpets 59 Too often, when you introduce a ringer into a gaggle of Pekes, there ensues a scrap like New Year's Eve in Madrid.
1963 S. Greer Metropolitics v. 104 We have omitted the ‘ringer’; none of our respondents claimed to recognize the spurious name.
1965 M. Bradbury Stepping Westward vii. 357 This is quite a party. I'm going to feel a real ringer.
1978 Detroit Free Press 2 Apr. (Detroit Suppl.) 8/1 Inside the lobby of the dilapidated building, Blow Dry scans the inhabitants, hoping..that no one will spot her as the ringer.
1994 Wine Spectator 31 Dec. 20/3 All the wines were served blind and in each flight..a ringer from France was included.
2004 Smithsonian Aug. 104/1 New Yorkers no longer allowed such imports, which they called ringers, to race in their colony.
d. British slang. A false registration plate attached to a stolen motor vehicle. Now rare.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > number plate > types of
trade plate1920
ringer1962
vanity plate1967
vanity number plate1983
1962 New Statesman 21 Dec. 899/1 The driver stays with the car regardless, and the car is equipped with ringers (false number-plates).
1964 E. Parr Grafters All ii. 25 The car is now driven to a hideaway, where ringers (false number-plates) are substituted.
Compounds
ringer-up n. a person making a telephone call; = caller n. 7.
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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > [noun] > caller
caller1879
telephoner1880
party1912
ringer-up1928
phoner1933
telephonist1952
1928 H. Lauder Roamin' in Gloamin' xviii. 215 Aggressive callers at the hotel and angry ringers-up on the telephone showed how much I had annoyed certain citizens.
1943 Times 16 Jan. 5/4 The perfect telephoner..will..find six minutes more than adequate... For those to whom the allowance appears ungenerous there remains the resource of the pen, though in the hands of your true ringers-up it has become almost atrophied.
1963 N. Marsh Dead Water (1964) v. 117 The ringer-up was Miss Cost.
1995 Independent on Sunday 23 July 21/3 They are the relentless poppers-in and ringers-up, the faffers, the control freaks and the talkaholics.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
ringern.2
/ˈrɪŋə/, U.S. /ˈrɪŋər/ 1. Founding, Brickmaking, etc. A long iron bar used for handling pieces of iron, tiles, etc., in a furnace or kiln. Now historical.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > other specific types of equipment > [noun] > devices for handling objects at a distance
ringer1633
lazybones1785
lazy scissors1836
lazy-tongs1836
glove box1852
manipulator1860
micromanipulator1921
waldo1942
long arm1949
1633 Inventory of Forge in Notes & Queries (1936) 21 Mar. 208/2 Inprimis one greate hammer. Item one great Anvil... Item three Ringers.
1666 Inventory in Surrey Archæol. Coll. (1903) XVIII. 50 One paire of forginge tonges, one paire of small tonges, one greate clam, one ringer, twoe iron dishes.
c1666 Inventory in Surrey Archæol. Coll. (1903) XVIII. 50 At the Furnace. Imprimis one payre of furnace bellowes wth leathers and things fittinge to them, one dam plate, twoe plats at the furnace mouthe, one furnace beame and weight, one greate rynger, three other ryngers.
1726 R. Neve City & Country Purchaser (ed. 2) at Brick They are forced to get them out with Wringers (or Iron-bars) and each Bolt of Tile shall be one entire Mass.
1865 F. Overman Treat. Metall. (ed. 6) iii. v. 568 When the iron is so heated as to be easily broken by the tools, the helper lifts the various pieces off the bottom, by means of the paddle or ringer-—a long crowbar... This is provided at one end with a round knob.
1996 R. B. Gordon Amer. Iron (2001) iv. 97 The feel of the bloom as tested with his ringer (a long iron rod).
2. Chiefly in Mining. A crowbar. In later use usually in ringer-and-chain. Now historical.In quots. 1671, 1673 the sense is uncertain.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > lever or crowbar > [noun]
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speke1366
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gavelock1497
prisea1500
handspoke1513
porter1538
sway1545
handspike1559
heaver1598
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pinch1685
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Betty1700
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spike1771
pry1803
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peiser1873
nail bar1929
cane1930
1650 Exchequer Deposition (P.R.O.: E134/1650/Mich 7) m. ii Eight ringers to the valew of two and thurtie shillings.
1671 in G. F. Dow Probate Rec. Essex County, Mass. (1917) II. 252 A par of Tayller shears and Iron Ringer And half a Croscut saw.
1673 Inventory in Rec. & Files Q. Courts Essex County, Mass. (1916) V. 203 Warming pan and a spitt, 8s.; sett of cast boxes and to ex pins, 12s., an Iron Ringer, 5s.; one ould plowshare, 2s.
1817 Trials J. Brandreth & Others II. 460 Q. Was any thing done there? A. The captain said, bring me a ringer, and take in Ben here... Q. What is a ringer? A. An iron bar.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Ringer, a miner's name for a crow bar.
1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining Ringer and Chain (M[idland Coal-field]), see Dog and Chain. [= ‘An iron lever with a chain attached by which props are withdrawn from the goaf.’]
1906 J. Tonge Princ. & Pract. Coal Mining viii. 151 Many accidents which now occur during the drawing of timber would be obviated if the use of the ringer and chain..were made compulsory.
1914 R. A. S. Redmayne Mod. Pract. in Mining III. vii. 203 The wording of the rule should allow the use of a ringer-and-chain, Sylvester, or other similar appliance.
1999 Mining Hist. 14 38 It [sc. the Sylvester] allowed considerable leverage to be applied; more than four times that of the traditional ‘ringer and chain’.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > driving or beating tools > [noun] > hammer > other hammers
hand-hammereOE
maulc1225
plating hammer1543
bucker1653
axe-hammer1681
brick hammer1688
chipping hammer1783
tup1848
clinch-hammer1850
tack-hammer1865
bucking hammer1875
bloat1881
ringer1883
key hammer1884
peen hammer1885
straight pein1904
toffee hammer1958
1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining Ringer (D[erbyshire Coal-field]), a hammer for driving wedges.
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ringern.3
/ˈrɪŋə/, U.S. /ˈrɪŋər/ 1. † a. Curling. A stone positioned within the circle drawn round either tee. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > curling > [noun] > stone as played
hog1808
forehand stone1825
ringer1825
guard1830
pot-lid1853
rider1891
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. s.v. Ringer,..the designation given to a stone which lies within the ring that surrounds the tee or mark in curling.
b. In quoits and horseshoe pitching: a quoit or horseshoe thrown so that it goes (and stays) round the target; a throw of this kind.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > quoits > [noun] > type of shot
riner1673
whaver1674
ringer1834
1834 J. S. Knowles Beggar of Bethnal-Green i. ii. 12 At quoits I'm famous for a ringer! And then I'll put the stone with any one.
1863 Tyneside Songs 86 Harle shapes just like this when puttin on a ringer.
1886 Encycl. Brit. XX. 189/2 Such a success is termed a ‘ringer’, and two is scored.
1931 Pop. Mech. July 79/2 The bobbing pegs make difficult targets and considerable skill is necessary to throw a ringer.
1968 Times 22 Apr. (Beer in Brit. Suppl.) p. viii/4 (caption) Removing a ringer from the quoit bed at the Royal William.
2005 R. L. Garcia Coal Camp Justice x. 82 Clang! Julian pitched a ringer.
2. An animal, esp. a fox, which runs in a circular course when hunted. Cf. ring v.2 7b.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > thing hunted or game > [noun] > which runs in ring
ringer1832
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > [noun] > genus Vulpes > vulpes vulpes (fox) > hunted
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1832 New Sporting Mag. Nov. 133/1 The Duke's hounds have excellent noses and they work like terriers, but most of the foxes in this hunt are ringers, seldom going right away,so that the straight run is seldom witnessed.
1854 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross vii. 65 A ringer is only a hare with a tail to it.
1891 Field 7 Mar. 331/2 That good sportsman.., among many foxes, has one or two long-distance runners in his coverts. However, on this occasion their place was taken by a brace of ringers.
1924 ‘Yoi-Over’ Hold Hard! Hounds, Please! i. 29 If a ringer, well, he [sc. a fox] may swing out into the open and make a wide horseshoe, then back to the covert where he was found.
3. Australian. A stockman or station hand, esp. one engaged primarily as a drover.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > [noun] > stock-farmer > worker
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ranchero1825
ranchman1854
bush-hand1863
station hand1863
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boundary-rider1865
bush-rider1883
ringer1909
bush-worker1936
stock-boy1937
jillaroo1945
1909 J. X. Cameron Spell of Bush iv. 48 Dam-sinkers, fencers, scrub-cutters, ringers, and other men doing contract work in the vicinity.
1942 C. Barrett On Wallaby i. 14 ‘Jim the Ringer’ came in every month for ‘a bender’.
1954 B. Miles Stars my Blanket xxiii. 204 The stockman—or ‘ringer’ as he is called—rides into the yard with a lassoo and ‘rings’ his bullock in true wild-west style.
1986 Bulletin (Sydney) 28 Jan. 67/2 Ringers on the seven stations branded 30,57 calves in 1985.
4. Ornithology. A person who rings birds (cf. ring v.2 1c); = bird ringer n. at bird n. Compounds 2a.Cf. earlier hog ringer n. at hog n.1 Compounds 2a.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > [noun] > marking or ringing > one who
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bird ringer1911
bird bander1912
1909 Brit. Birds 3 5 Any finder of a ring so marked should realise that communication with the ‘ringer’ is intended.
1946 Brit. Birds 39 260 The ringer probably keeps a sharper look-out for dead birds than the ordinary person.
1978 P. Conder RSPB Guide to Birdwatching 103 In the early days when there were few ringers, most of the birds were recovered dead.
2000 Country Illustr. Apr. 87/3 Ringers record distances flown and times taken.
5. slang. With preceding numeral: an officer of a particular rank (indicated by the rings worn on the sleeve) in a navy or air force. Also without numeral: any officer.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > airman > [noun] > officer in air force
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ringer1918
1918 E. P. Dawson Pushing Water iii. 19 The C. O. is usually a ‘two-ringer’ who has served at least one year with the Auxiliary Patrol, the other [officer] is a Sub-Lieutenant, a one-ringer, newer at the game.
1943 C. H. Ward-Jackson It's a Piece of Cake 51 Pilot Officer is a ‘Half-ringer’, and Squadron Leader a ‘Two and a half ringer’.
1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. 163 Ringer, an officer.
1976 ‘A. Hall’ Kobra Manifesto v. 65 One of the air-crew, a two-ringer.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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/ˈrɪŋə/, U.S. /ˈrɪŋər/ Biology.
1. attributive and in the genitive. Designating various saline solutions having a composition similar to that of blood serum (typically containing sodium, potassium, and calcium chlorides), as originally introduced by Ringer.
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1883 Lancet 21 Apr. 705/2 In four instances I have used Ringer's solution with much benefit.
1913 Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1912 660 A heart perfused with a Ringer solution without lime stops much earlier than when perfused with a Ringer solution without lime and without potassium.
1958 Immunology 1 3 The cells suspended in the filtrate were washed by two or three gentle centrifugations in Ringer-phosphate.
1993 Brit. Jrnl. Surg. 80 213/2 Recent experiments in animal models of uncontrolled haemorrhagic shock have clearly shown that resuscitation with Ringer's lactate or hypertonic solutions significantly increased both bleeding and death.
2005 New Scientist 19 Nov. 36/2 Into both hearts Loewi inserted a tube filled with Ringer's solution, a liquid that matches the concentration of salts in the body and keeps isolated organs alive.
2. A solution of this kind. Also in the genitive, used absol.
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the world > life > biology > substance > physiological solutions > [noun]
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1915 Jrnl. Physiol. 50 138 Isotonic Ringer or sodium chloride is not an indifferent fluid.
1932 W. Burridge Excitability xxi. 173 We..washed out the muscle with saline or Ringer.
1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 5 Aug. 307/2 The composition of the universally employed Ringer's owes little to design, for Ringer intended it to be made up of sodium chloride in distilled water.
1975 Nature 10 Jan. 99/2 When the Ringer was made sufficiently hypertonic so that twitch movement was essentially eliminated, the second component propagated throughout the fibre.
1990 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 90 No. 6. 55/1 Acetated Ringer's is a better choice for such patients.
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