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ring-cake

ring-cake noun: a cake having a ring baked inside it, with slices sold as a form of lottery. Once a common feature of church fairs.

Noun

ring-cake (plural ring-cakes)

  1. (US) A cake having a ring baked inside it, with slices sold as a form of lottery. Once a common feature of church fairs.
    • Then pointing successively to the lottery-table, grab-box, ring-cake, and cigars, he continued[…]1870, Jeremiah N. Thomas, “Jonadab Cleaver's Experiment; Or, the Last Church Fair at Rutway”, in Sabbath at Home
    • Then there is the church fair with its grab-bag having a silver pencil, and its ring-cake from which some one will get a gold ring for five cents.1887, “The Book World”, in The Sunday-school World

Forms of ring-cake

pluralring-cakes

Questions about ring-cake

What does ring-cake mean?
Ring-cake means a cake having a ring baked inside it, with slices sold as a form of lottery. Once a common feature of church fairs.
What part of speech is ring-cake?
Ring-cake is a noun.
What is the plural of ring-cake?
The plural of ring-cake is ring-cakes.

Words near ring-cake in the dictionary

  1. ring-billed gulls
  2. ring-bolt
  3. ring-bolts
  4. ring-bone
  5. ring-bones
  6. ring-cake
  7. ring-cakes
  8. ring-dropping
  9. ring-fence
  10. ring-fenced
  11. ring-fences

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