ringman
See also: ring-man
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editringman (plural ringmen)
- A male entertainer who works in the ring of a circus.
- A man within the betting ring of a racecourse; a bookmaker who works in the ring.
- A male boxer or prizefighter.
- A man who works in a ring where animals are exhibited.
- An auctioneer's assistant who spots bids and communicates information back to the auctioneer.
- (obsolete) The ring finger.
- 1544 (date written; published 1571), Roger Ascham, Toxophilus, the Schole, or Partitions, of Shooting. […], London: […] Thomas Marshe, →OCLC; republished in The English Works of Roger Ascham, […], London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley, […], and J[ohn] Newbery, […], 1761, →OCLC:
- And when a man shooteth, the might of his shoote lyeth on the foremost finger, and on the ringman