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English
Etymology
From ring + -man.
Noun
ringman (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 and J Dodsley, , and J Newbery, , 1761, →OCLC:And when a man shooteth, the might of his shoote lyeth on the foremost finger, and on the ringman
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