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Ringer   /rˈɪŋər/   Listen
noun
Ringer  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, rings; especially, one who rings chimes on bells.
2.
(Mining) A crowbar.



Ringer  n.  (Horse Racing) A horse that is not entitled to take part in a race, but is fraudulently got into it.






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"Ringer" Quotes from Famous Books



... singer, is loved by the profligate priest Claude Frollo, who with the assistance of Quasimodo, the deformed bell-ringer of Notre Dame, tries to carry her off by night. She is rescued by Phoebus de Chateaupers, the captain of the guard, who speedily falls in love with her. Frollo escapes, but Quasimodo is captured, though, at Esmeralda's ...
— The Opera - A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions - of all Works in the Modern Repertory • R.A. Streatfeild

... Coote, holding out a shaking ringer, with a legend on its nail, "whatever is this the date for—1476? I put it down, and— Oh! I say, can't ...
— Follow My leader - The Boys of Templeton • Talbot Baines Reed

... Sirs, they are of us, as their dress denotes, And by as much: let them together chime: It is an ancient bell within their throats, Pulled by an aged ringer; with what glee Befits the yellow yesterdays of time. He who's for us, ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... chorus and a prima donna in spangled clothes comes to the front. Maybe it was Melba, or Nordica. Anyway, she was an A-1 warbler. She hadn't let go of more'n a dozen notes before the Lady Brigandess begins to sit up and take notice. First she has a kind of surprised look, as if a ringer had been sprung on her; and then, as the high C artist begins to let herself go, she swings around and listens with both ears. The music didn't seem to go in one side and out the other. It stuck somewhere between, and swayed ...
— Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford

... you," said Mr. McKenna. "Think of the purchasing power: you've got to always figure that out. A dollar you'd get then would be worth only half as much as it's worth now. It'd be a dollar like they run through the ringer down ...
— Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War • Finley Peter Dunne


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