ringers

Noun (1)

ringer (plural ringers)

1. Someone who rings, especially a bell ringer.
   • Pull, if ye never pull′d before;
     Good ringers, pull your best," quoth he.1863, Jean Ingelow, High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire
2. A crowbar.

Noun (2)

ringer (plural ringers)

1. A person who places rings or bands on a bird's leg.
   • It is difficult to classify them precisely, but, in roughly ascending order of productivity, we now recognise the purely chance observer, the locality regulars (now recognising that ‘time in’ eventually equals ‘rarity out’), the ringers (particularly when working in groups), the occasional...1970, D.I.M. Wallace, “The first ten years of the Rarities Committee”, in British Birds, volume 63, number 3, London, page 124
2. (Australia) A stockman, a cowboy.
   • The ringers are the stockmen on a station. The cattle pass through their hands before the drovers lift them and take them along the stock routes that lead to the killing pens in cities.1964, Alec Bolton, Walkabout′s Australia, Walkabout magazine, page 107
3. In the game of horseshoes, the event of the horseshoe landing around the pole.
4. (uncountable) A game of marbles where players attempt to knock each other's marbles out of a ring drawn on the ground.

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