ring-dollar

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• Dollar

  ·noun The value of a dollar; the unit commonly employed in the United States in reckoning money valu...

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• dollar

  n. See Holy dollar. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• dollar

  For this universally known coin, see PIECE OF EIGHT. ...

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• Ring

  ·noun A circular group of persons. II. Ring ·vi To rise in the air spirally. III. Ring ·vi To prac...

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• Ring

  Used as an ornament to decorate the fingers, arms, wrists, and also the ears and the nose. Rings wer...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• ring

  Money procured by begging: beggars so called it from its ringing when thrown to them. Also a circle ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• ring

  v. tr. 1) To cut the bark of a treeround the trunk so as to kill it. The word is common in thesame ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• ring

  A commercial measure of staves, or wood prepared for casks, and containing four shocks. Also, the ir...

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• Ring

  The ring was regarded as an indispensable article of a Hebrew's attire, inasmuch as it contained his...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Rix-dollar

  ·noun A name given to several different silver coins of Denmark, Holland, Sweden,, NOrway, ·etc., va...

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• dollar-bird

  n. name given to the Roller (q.v.). See quotations. 1827. Vigors and Horsfield, `Transactions of L...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• dollar-fish

  n. a name often given formerly tothe John Dory (q.v.), from the mark on its side. See quotation, 18...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• Holy dollar

  n. punning name for a dollar outof which a Dump (q.v.) had been punched. 1822. `Hobart Town Gazett...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• dollar mark

  The origin of this sign to represent the dollar has been the cause of much discussion of late in t...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• rix-dollar

  A silver coin common in northern Europe, of the average value of 4 s. 6 d. ...

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• Bearing ring

  ·add. ·- In a balloon, the braced wooden ring attached to the suspension ropes at the bottom, functi...

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• Piston ring

  ·add. ·- A spring packing ring, or any of several such rings, for a piston. ...

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• Ring armature

  ·add. ·- An armature for a dynamo or motor having the conductors wound on a ring. ...

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• Ring winding

  ·add. ·- Armature winding in which the wire is wound round the outer and inner surfaces alternately ...

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• Ring-necked

  ·adj Having a well defined ring of color around the neck. ...

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• Ring-streaked

  ·adj Having circular streaks or lines on the body; as, ring-streaked goats. ...

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• Ring-tailed

  ·adj Having the tail crossed by conspicuous bands of color. ...

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• Vortex ring

  ·add. ·- A ring-shaped mass of moving fluid which, by virtue of its motion of rotation around an axi...

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• Whiskey, Ring

  ·add. ·- A conspiracy of distillers and government officials during the administration of President ...

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• carvel's ring

  The private parts of a woman. Ham Carvel, a jealous old doctor, being in bed with his wife, dreamed ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• ring-bark

  v. tr. Same meaning as Ring(1). 1888. D. Macdonald, `Gum Boughs,' p. 204: «The selector in a timb...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• ring-eye

  n. one of the many names for thebirds of the genus Zosterops (q.v.). ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• ring-neck

  n. the equivalent of Jackaroo (q.v.). A term used in the back blocks in reference to thewhite colla...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• ring-tail

  or Ring-tailed Opossum n. See pseudochirus and opossum. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• fly ring

  laughing, fleering, or sneering. N. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• yold-ring

  a yello-whammer. N. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• anchor-ring

  Formerly the great ring welded into the hole for it. Recent anchors have Jew's-harp shackles, easily...

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• base-ring

  In guns of cast-metal, the flat moulding round the breech at that part where the longitudinal surfac...

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• cornish ring

  The astragal of the muzzle or neck of a gun; it is the next ring from the mouth backwards. (Now disu...

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• muzzle-ring

  That which encompassed and strengthened the muzzle or mouth of a cannon; now disused. ...

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• ring-bolt

  An iron bolt with an eye at one end, wherein is fitted a circular ring. They are more particularly u...

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• ring-dogs

  Iron implements for hauling timber along: made by connecting two common dogs by a ring through the e...

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• ring-ropes

  Ropes rove through the ring of the anchor, to haul the cable through it, in order to bend or make it...

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• ring-stopper

  A long piece of rope secured to an after ring-bolt, and the loop embracing the cable through the nex...

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• ring-tail

  A kind of studding-sail hoisted beyond the after edge of those sails which are extended by a gaff an...

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• trunnion-ring

  The ring round a cannon next before the trunnions, now disused. ...

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• to ring a peal

  To scold; chiefly applied to women. His wife rung him a fine peal! ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• ring the changes

  When a person receives silver in change to shift some good shillings and put bad ones in their place...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose