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ring-cakes

ring-cakes is the plural of ring-cake.

Meaning of ring-cake

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

Questions about ring-cakes

What is ring-cakes the plural of?
Ring-cakes is the plural of ring-cake.

Words near ring-cakes in the dictionary

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

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