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noun

Ringer n.

One who, or that which, rings; especially, one who rings chimes on bells.

(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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ringer" Quotes from Famous Books

... good. Some of these days he's going to play both ends against the middle and both ends'll fold in on him and smash him." A suspicion occurred to him. "You sure this is Rakkeed? It would be just like Yoorkerk to try to sell us a ringer." ...

— Ullr Uprising • Henry Beam Piper

... bell-ringer," returned Coleman; "they keep up the old custom at Hillingford of ringing the curfew at daybreak, and he's going about ...

— Frank Fairlegh - Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil • Frank E. Smedley

... the book from which the clergyman read the lessons of the day; and nothing could keep me away, even in the coldest seasons, but the stern looks of an old man, whom I named Black John from the colour of his beard and complexion, and whose occupations within the sacred precincts were those of a bell-ringer and sexton. ...

— Beaux and Belles of England • Mary Robinson

... all," cried she, dancing before them in the most provoking manner. "Arthur can only be a paid clerk, and Constance is going to be a governess and get forty guineas a year, and if Tom doesn't gain his exhibition he must turn bell-ringer to the college, for papa can't pay for him at ...

— The Channings • Mrs. Henry Wood

... was received, Monsieur Lousteau-Prangin had verified, by the testimony of the bell-ringer, the market-women and washerwomen, and the miller's men, the truth of Joseph's explanation. Max's letter made his innocence only the more certain, and Monsieur Mouilleron himself escorted him back to the Hochons'. Joseph was greeted with such overflowing tenderness by his mother that the poor ...

— The Celibates - Includes: Pierrette, The Vicar of Tours, and The Two Brothers • Honore de Balzac

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