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ringling

ringling is the present participle and gerund of ringle.

Meaning of ringle

Verb

ringle (third-person singular simple present ringles, present participle ringling, simple past and past participle ringled)

  1. (dialectal, obsolete, transitive) To fit or attach a ringle to.
    • 70 For rooting of paſture ring hog ye had need,
      Which being well ringled,the better do feed.
      Though yong with their elders, will lightly kepe beſt
      yet ſpare not to ringle, both great and the reſt.1573, Thomas Tusser, “Septembers husbandrie” (chapter 12), in Five hundreth points of good huſbandry […] , London, page 19

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Noun

ringling (countable and uncountable, plural ringlings)

  1. (dialectal, obsolete) Ringing.
    • Court. You heard nothing but a ſtroke fall upon the man? No, nothing elſe ; the laſt ſtroke made more ringling than the reſt ; the two firſt ſounded hollow, as if they were upon the bed cloaths.1780, “The ſame Jury as were impannelled Yeſterday; Sunday Morning”, in The Trials, at Large of W. Henry Turton, and Luke West for the Murder of Charles Gutherson, In the Pariſh of Chatam; […]...
    • It is this:—After the descending weight may have unlocked the trap, and it has “ gone off,” that there will not be sufficient power in the mechanism of the bell to keep up a continued ringling for any time; it cannot possibly make any more noise than the quick ring of an ordinary bell, and...1837 August 26, Jingle, “Improved Alarums”, in The Penny Mechanic and the Chemist, volume II, number XLIV, page 26

Proper noun capitalized: Ringling

Ringling

  1. A surname, notably that of a circus owning family.
  2. An unincorporated community in Meagher County, Montana, United States, named after John Ringling.
  3. A town in Jefferson County, Oklahoma, United States, also named after John Ringling.

Forms of ringling

pluralringlings

Questions about ringling

What does ringling mean?
Ringling means ringing.
What is ringling the present participle and gerund of?
Ringling is the present participle and gerund of ringle.
What part of speech is ringling?
Ringling can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of ringling?
The plural of ringling is ringlings.

Words near ringling in the dictionary

  1. ringletty
  2. ringlety
  3. ringlight
  4. ringlights
  5. ringlike
  6. ringling
  7. ringmail
  8. ringmails
  9. ringmaking
  10. ringman
  11. ringmaster

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ringling (page history and authors); Ringling (page history and authors); ringle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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