rang

Verb

ring (third-person singular simple present rings, present participle ringing, simple past and past participle ringed)

1. (transitive) To enclose or surround.
   • The inner city was ringed with dingy industrial areas.
2. (figuratively, transitive) To make an incision around; to girdle; to cut away a circular tract of bark from a tree in order to kill it.
   • They ringed the trees to make the clearing easier next year.
3. (transitive) To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
   • We managed to ring 22 birds this morning.
4. (transitive) To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
   • to ring a pig’s snout
5. To rise in the air spirally.
   • […] how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing / In his ecstacy!1877 May 30, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “The Windhover: To Christ Our Lord”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918...
6. (transitive) To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.
   • A. Woodley, Trio: 3 short stories
     Gabe said that as Derry had only caught part of the conversation, it's possible that they were discussing a film, it was bad enough that they'd unwittingly been brought into ringing cars, adding drugs into it was far more than either of them could ever be...

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