ringer
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From ring.
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ringer (plural ringers)
- Someone who rings, especially a bell ringer.
- 1863, Jean Ingelow, High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire,
- Pull, if ye never pull'd before;
- Good ringers, pull your best," quoth he.
- 1863, Jean Ingelow, High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire,
- In the game of horseshoes, when the horseshoe lands around the pole.
- A person, animal, or entity which resembles another so closely as to be taken for the other. (Now usually in the phrase dead ringer)
- (Australian) a stockman; a drover
- A person highly proficient at a skill or sport who is brought in, often fraudulently, to supplement a team.

