a person who rings church bells (as for summoning the congregation)
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a person who is almost identical to another
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a contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses
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(horseshoes) the successful throw of a horseshoe or quoit so as to encircle a stake or peg
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Ringer \Ring"er\, n. 1. One who, or that which, rings; especially, one who rings chimes on bells.
2. (Mining) A crowbar. --Simmonds.
Ringer \Ring"er\, n. (Horse Racing) A horse that is not entitled to take part in a race, but is fraudulently got into it.
He manned the UAL post yesterday with Christopher Bates, 33, an energetic Long Islander who's a dead ringer for actor Nicolas Cage.
It was the lucky shoe that Gorbachev had tossed for a first-time ringer at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains, as he and his wife relaxed there last Saturday with the Bushes.
Nathan Johnson, head of the charity's Belleville office. "It's believed he was hired as bell ringer this year, and had been hired in the past." "It saddens me, because I obviously hired the person," Johnson said Friday.
This occurs, the doctors wrote, when the bell's stay breaks, the bell goes out of balance and the ringer who forgets to release the rope is whisked towards the ceiling at a speed approaching 55 mph.
Two-year-old Coco, a dead ringer for the original Asta, does get a callback.
Bush complained jokingly that although Gorbachev had never thrown horseshoes before, he managed to score a "ringer" by hooking one on a metal stake on his first try.
Later, throwing against Gov. Guy Hunt of Alabama, Bush got his ringer.
A ringer, when the points of a horseshoe encircle a steel stake in a clay or sand pit, counts as 3 points.
Chromium and iron, when heated, give the stone its rich green color, making it a dead ringer for emeralds, she said.
He seems the picture of confidence, even when he spots a ringer in the field.
Here comes the femme fatale, a dead ringer for Gianni Versace's Cyber Princess, teetering on her vertiginous heels, all dressed up in a languid, bias-cut slip of a dress and an elegant string of pearls.