Word Meanings - RINGER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A crowbar. Simmonds. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, rings; especially, one who rings chimes on bells.

Related words: (words related to RINGER)

• CROWBAR
  A bar of iron sharpened at one end, and used as a lever.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• RINGSTRAKED
  Ring-streaked. Cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted. Gen. xxx. 39.
• ESPECIALLY
  In an especial manner; chiefly; particularly; peculiarly; in an uncommon degree.
• RINGSAIL
  See RINGTAIL,2
• EMBERINGS
  Ember days.
• HOPPERINGS
  Gravel retaining in the hopper of a cradle.
• ROUGHSTRINGS
  Pieces of undressed timber put under the steps of a wooden stair for their support.
• KISSING STRINGS
  Cap or bonnet strings made long to tie under the chin. One of her ladyship's kissing strings, once pink and fluttering and now faded and soiled. Pall Mall Mag.
• BOW-BELLS
  The bells of Bow Church in London; cockneydom. People born within the sound of Bow-bells are usually called cockneys. Murray's Handbook of London.
• WRINGSTAFF
  A strong piece of plank used in applying wringbolts.
• AFTERINGS
  The last milk drawn in milking; strokings. Grose.
• NOBILI'S RINGS
  Colored rings formed upon a metal plate by the electrolytic disposition of copper, lead peroxide, etc. They may be produced by touching with a pointed zinc rod a silver plate on which is a solution of copper sulphate.