ringman

See also: ring-man

English

Alternative forms

• ring-man

Etymology

ring +‎ -man

Noun

ringman (plural ringmen)

1. A male entertainer who works in the ring of a circus.
2. A man within the betting ring of a racecourse; a bookmaker who works in the ring.
3. A male boxer or prizefighter.
4. A man who works in a ring where animals are exhibited.
5. An auctioneer's assistant who spots bids and communicates information back to the auctioneer.
6. (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

Anagrams

• Manring