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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

RING'ER, n. One who rings. [In the sense of wringer, not used.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a person who rings church bells (as for summoning the congregation) [syn: toller, bell ringer, ringer]
2: a person who is almost identical to another [syn: ringer, dead ringer, clone]
3: a contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses
4: (horseshoes) the successful throw of a horseshoe or quoit so as to encircle a stake or peg

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Date: 15th century 1. one that sounds especially by ringing 2. a. (1) one that enters a competition under false representations (2) imposter, fake b. one that strongly resembles another — often used with dead <he's a dead ringer for the senator> II. noun Date: 1863 one that encircles or puts a ring around (as a quoit or horseshoe that lodges so as to surround the peg)

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. sl. 1 a esp. US an athlete or horse entered in a competition by fraudulent means, esp. as a substitute. b a person's double, esp. an imposter. 2 Austral. a the fastest shearer in a shed. b a stockman or station hand. 3 a person who rings, esp. a bell-ringer. Phrases and idioms: be a ringer (or dead ringer) for resemble (a person) exactly. Etymology: RING(2) + -ER(1)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Ringer Ring"er, n. 1. One who, or that which, rings; especially, one who rings chimes on bells. 2. (Mining) A crowbar. --Simmonds.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Ringer Ring"er, n. (Horse Racing) A horse that is not entitled to take part in a race, but is fraudulently got into it.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(ringers) 1. If you say that one person is a ringer or a dead ringer for another, you mean that they look exactly like each other. (INFORMAL) PHRASE: usu v-link PHR for n 2. A bell ringer is someone who rings church bells or hand bells as a hobby. (mainly BRIT) N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

agent, alternate, alternative, analogy, backup, blagueur, bluff, bluffer, change, changeling, charlatan, comparison, copy, counterfeit, deputy, double, dummy, equal, equivalent, ersatz, exchange, fake, faker, fill-in, fourflusher, fraud, ghost, ghostwriter, humbug, imitation, impersonator, impostor, locum tenens, makeshift, malingerer, metaphor, metonymy, mountebank, next best thing, personnel, phony, picture, pinch hitter, portrait, poser, poseur, pretender, proxy, quack, quacksalver, quackster, relief, replacement, representative, reserves, saltimbanco, second string, secondary, sham, shammer, sign, simulacrum, spares, spit, spitting image, stand-in, sub, substituent, substitute, substitution, succedaneum, superseder, supplanter, surrogate, symbol, synecdoche, third string, token, understudy, utility player, vicar, vice-president, vice-regent