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Ring (The)

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The space set apart for prize-fighters, horse-racing, etc. So called because the spectators stand round in a ring.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Rigoletto
Rigwoodie
Rile
Rimer
Rimfaxi [Frost-mane]
Rimmon
Rimthursar
Rinaldo (in Jerusalem Delivered)
Ring
Ring
Ring (The)
Ring
Ring
Ring Down
Ring Finger
Ring Posies
Ring a Ding-ding
Ring in the Ear
Ring of Invisibility (The)
Ring One’s Own Bell (To)
Rings Noted in Fable