ringful en · NOUN · etymology 1
Etymology
From ring + -ful.
Meanings
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The amount that fills or makes up a ring.
A very good opening was made with a class of ten aged bulls and they made quite an imposing "ringful."
1937, Aberdeen-Angus Review - Issues 37-42, page 15:Another had jumped Don, who wrapped the leather strap around his hand and hit the biker in the face with his ringful of keys.
2008, Craig Glazer, The King of Sting: The Amazing True Story of a Modern American Outlaw, →ISBN:Time ticked by agonizingly, and he would have traded an entire ringful of dilithium crystals for one good laser solderer.
2012, Greg Cox, The Rings of Time, →ISBN:And he thrusts a ringful of dangling strips of leather into the cab.
1979, Kate Simon, Mexico, places and pleasures, →ISBN, page 378:Bolton, an industrial town in the north-west sector of Greater Manchester's built-up sprawl, has long been identified with unglamorous grit; it is the home of Fred Dibnah, television's steeplejack, of a ringful of professional wrestlers, and the setting for Bill Naughton's treatment of working-class patriarchalism.
1991, Robert Waller, The Almanac of British Politics, page 117:He looked at the round-shouldered, almost humpbacked figure of this unpleasantly quiet man whose mysteriously growing talent could have been checked only by a ringful of poison in a glass of wine— this all-comprehending man with whom he had never yet had a chance to have the good talk he dreamt of having some day and in whose presence he, writhing, burning and hopelessly summoning his own poems to come to his aid, felt himself a mere contemporary.
1979, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, The Gift, page 76:I saw a whole ringful of black clouds and this little ray of sunshine just couldn't penetrate them.
1949, John Harold Johnson, Negro Digest - Volume 8, page 12:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ringsful | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| ringfuls | Number=Plur | lexicographic |