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Substantiivit
- Someone who rings, especially a bell ringer.
- (games) In the game of horseshoes, the event of the horseshoe landing around the pole.
- (horse racing) A horse fraudently entered in a race using the name of another horse.
- (UK, dialect) A top performer.
- (mining) A crowbar.
- (uncountable, games) A game of marbles where players attempt to knock each other's marbles out of a ring drawn on the ground.
- (sport) A person highly proficient at a skill or sport who is brought in, often fraudulently, to supplement a team.
- (Australia) The champion shearer of a shearing shed.
- A person, animal, or entity which resembles another so closely as to be taken for the other; now usually in the phrase dead ringer.
- (Australia) A stockman, a cowboy.
Esimerkit
- Pull, if ye never pull′d before;
- Good ringers, pull your best," quoth he.
- 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.
- 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.
- Most people associated with the Australian beef industry believe the ringer′s skill of throwing cattle by the tail to be a practice that is purely Australian. There is ample evidence however, that it was practised in South and Central America long before it was developed here.
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