ringer

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 1.4 Etymology 3 1.4.1 Noun 1.4.1.1 Derived terms 1.5 Etymology 4 1.5.1 Noun 1.6 Anagrams

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /'rɪŋə/

  Rhymes: -ɪŋə(r)

[edit] Etymology 1

From ring (“‘to sound a bell’”) + -er.

[edit] Noun

ringer (plural ringers)

1. 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.

[edit] Etymology 2

From ring (“‘to surround’”)

[edit] Noun

ringer (plural ringers)

1. In the game of horseshoes, when the horseshoe lands around the pole.

[edit] Etymology 3

Probably from ring the changes

[edit] Noun

ringer (plural ringers)

1. A person highly proficient at a skill or sport who is brought in, often fraudulently, to supplement a team.
2. A person, animal, or entity which resembles another so closely as to be taken for the other. (Now usually in the phrase dead ringer)

[edit] Derived terms

• dead ringer

[edit] Etymology 4

Unknown

[edit] Noun

ringer (plural ringers)

1. (British, dialectal) A top performer
2. (Australian) A stockman; a drover

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: eginrr
• erring