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ringman en · NOUN

Etymology

From ring + -man.

Meanings

1. A male entertainer who works in the ring of a circus.
2. A man within the betting ring of a racecourse; a bookmaker who works in the ring.
3. A male boxer or prizefighter.
4. A man who works in a ring where animals are exhibited.
5. An auctioneer's assistant who spots bids and communicates information back to the auctioneer.
6. (obsolete) The ring finger.
   • And when a man shooteth, the might of his shoote lyeth on the foremost finger, and on the ringman 1545, Roger Ascham, Toxophilus, the Schole of Shootinge […], London: […] Edouardi Whytchurch, →OCLC:

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