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[ UK /ɹˈɪŋɐ/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈɪŋɐ/ ]
NOUN
- (horseshoes) the successful throw of a horseshoe or quoit so as to encircle a stake or peg
- a person who is almost identical to another
- a person who rings church bells (as for summoning the congregation)
- a contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses
How To Use ringer In A Sentence
- Sons don’t resemble their fathers in every detail, I’ve noticed it time and time again, and there’s many a woman brought to bed of a son who is profoundly thankful for that fact, and expends a great deal of her postpartum energy assuring the sprog’s tata that the sprog is a dead ringer for her great-uncle Lucius Tiddlypuss. The First Man in Rome
- He loved his little porringer, which is to say that he ate a good deal; and he loved to read books, which is not to say that he loved study; he hated getting out of bed, and he was constantly gated for morning chapel. The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
- It was then allowed to recover on the stringer in deeper water before being returned alive to grow on to even larger proportions.
- Sed quamquam permulta sint quae hunc sensum inpugnare ualeant atque perfringere, de argumentorum copia tamen haec interim libasse sufficiat. The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy
- In the theater's museum is the real Booth derringer. Movie on Lincoln assassination has second life in D.C. crime museum
- Light baiting with stringers was the order of the day, just to give the fish something to home in on.
- The porringer was a very important article of table use, for pap, and soft foods such as we should term cereals, and for boiled pudding. Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance
- Preliminary Injunction means the court forces the infringers to stop ongoing infringement or events that are about to happen upon obligee's request before or during infringement litigation.
- The more open grasslands and heathlands contain fewer mammal species, with the klipspringer (Oreotragus oreotragus), sable antelope (Papio cynocephalus), eland (Taurotragus oryx) and hyraxes (Procavia capensis) being the most conspicuous. Eastern Zimbabwe montane forest-grassland mosaic
- The stringer connects the level of the deck to the grade, for the installation of stair risers and treads.