ringful
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Definition of ringful
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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The amount that fills or makes up a ring.
“A very good opening was made with a class of ten aged bulls and they made quite an imposing "ringful."”
“I saw a whole ringful of black clouds and this little ray of sunshine just couldn't penetrate them.”
“He looked at the round-shouldered, almost humpbacked figure of this unpleasantly quiet man whose mysteriously growing talent could have been checked only by a ringful of poison in a glass of wine— this all-comprehending man with whom he had never yet had a chance to have the good talk he dreamt of having some day and in whose presence he, writhing, burning and hopelessly summoning his own poems to come to his aid, felt himself a mere contemporary.”
“And he thrusts a ringful of dangling strips of leather into the cab.”
“Bolton, an industrial town in the north-west sector of Greater Manchester's built-up sprawl, has long been identified with unglamorous grit; it is the home of Fred Dibnah, television's steeplejack, of a ringful of professional wrestlers, and the setting for Bill Naughton's treatment of working-class patriarchalism.”
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noun
-
The amount that fills or makes up a ring.
“A very good opening was made with a class of ten aged bulls and they made quite an imposing "ringful."”
“I saw a whole ringful of black clouds and this little ray of sunshine just couldn't penetrate them.”
“He looked at the round-shouldered, almost humpbacked figure of this unpleasantly quiet man whose mysteriously growing talent could have been checked only by a ringful of poison in a glass of wine— this all-comprehending man with whom he had never yet had a chance to have the good talk he dreamt of having some day and in whose presence he, writhing, burning and hopelessly summoning his own poems to come to his aid, felt himself a mere contemporary.”
“And he thrusts a ringful of dangling strips of leather into the cab.”
“Bolton, an industrial town in the north-west sector of Greater Manchester's built-up sprawl, has long been identified with unglamorous grit; it is the home of Fred Dibnah, television's steeplejack, of a ringful of professional wrestlers, and the setting for Bill Naughton's treatment of working-class patriarchalism.”
adj
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(nonce-word)Ringlike or pertaining to rings.
“Let's face it: anyone with a ring in his ear and long hair is a kind of 'sonofabitch', even if his bike isn't unduly 'ringful', with spokes radiating out from a narrow hub.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From ring + -ful.
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