Definitions
(horseshoes) the successful throw of a horseshoe or quoit so as to encircle a stake or peg
Word origin
From Middle English ringere, rynger, ryngar, equivalent to ring (“to sound a bell”) + -er.
Used in a sentence
“Pull, if ye never pull′d before; Good ringers, pull your best," quoth he.”
“This vast holding is run by six ringers and six boys. A ringer is a qualified stationhand and a boy is a trainee. It takes four years for a boy to become a ringer.”
“Click goes his shears; click, click, click. Wide are the blows, and his hand is moving quick, The ringer looks round, for he lost it by a blow, And he curses that old shearer with the bare belled ewe.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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