1908 Fairbanks (Alaska) Daily News 6 Sept. 1/7 The ring-wise claim the chances are not enough in Attell's favor to make it better than an even gamble.

1946 Billboard 19 Oct. 51/3 Folks in the biz who are ringwise know that Friday is the big day at the Mississippi State Fair, and rain on that day means disaster.

1992 D. B. Pillemer Momentous Events, Vivid Memories (1998) v. 144 But there were intelligent ringwise boxing people who thought he might win.

2000 G. Kent Boxing's Strangest Fights (new ed.) 125 Ring-wise reporters were less enthusiastic.

1923 Salt Lake Tribune 13 Apr. 12/8 He is speedy and hits hard for a little fellow, and..is ringwise enough to outgeneral the popular idol.

1944 Sun (Baltimore) 29 Mar. 15/2 Salica, ringwise and cunning, was unwilling to trade punches.

1991 San Francisco Chron. 15 Mar. b3/2 California water czar David Kennedy gives the old bob-and-weave you'd expect from a ring-wise bureaucrat.

2007 G. Howard Rassler from Renfrew vii. 56/2 The Herb Parks Memorial Trophy..recognized tag-team supremacy and, fittingly enough, the first winners were Dinty Parks and Bill Curry, who defeated the ring-wise Tony Morelli and tough Rebel Bob Russell.

OE tr. Alexander's Let. to Aristotle (1995) §21. 238 Þa hit wæs foran to uhtes, þa æteowde þær wolberende lyft hwites hiowes, & eac missenlices wæs heo on hringwisan fag [L. candido uersecolore in modum zonarum].]

1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Scotl. 12/2 in Chron. I There remayneth vnto this day certaine of those greate stones standing rounde ringwise.

1655 Marquis of Worcester Cent. Names Inventions ⁋5 Either along a Rule or Ring-wise.

1745 True Descr. Italy in Harleian Misc. V. 19/1 This Campo Santo is an hospital.., where are fed, every Dinner-time, thirteen Pilgrims, of which a great Number do assemble themselves every Morning, standing ring-wise.

1787 C. Taylor Surv. Nature II. 163 Its scales placed ring-wise on its body.

1877 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 10) xxxix. 610 Pillared crags ranged rudely ring-wise.

1889 Lancet 3 Aug. 244/1 Their foreheads are tattooed ringwise, with singularly shaped cuttings in the skin.

1915 E. R. Lankester Diversions of Naturalist 101 Backbone-pieces and the body muscles attached ring-wise to them.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. iv. [Calypso] 60 Pepper. He sprinkled it through his fingers, ringwise, from the chipped eggcup.

1991 Antiquity 65 855/2 Having only irregular stones at hand—or snowballs—a child immediately starts to build a dome, first laying out a circular ground plan and then closing the structure ringwise.

2004 I. Hotz & H. Hagen in G. Brunnett et al. Geom. Modeling for Sci. Visualization i. 24 The surface points are computed ring wise around a point of interest.