Lexic.us

Definition of Prize ring

1. Noun. A square ring where boxers fight.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prize Ring

Literary usage of Prize ring

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transatlantic Sketches, Comprising Visits to the Most Interesting Scenes in by James Edward Alexander (1833)
"The Prize-ring defended. —Broad Horns.—The Cut-off at Red River—The Inundation.—The" Union is snagged and sinks.—Accidents on the Mississippi. ..."

2. Transatlantic Sketches, Comprising Visits to the Most Interesting Scenes in by James Edward Alexander (1833)
"A Skirmish—The Prize-ring defended. — Broad Horns.—The Cut-off at Red River.—The Inundation.—The Union is snagged and sinks.—Accidents on the Mississippi. ..."

3. Five Years in Texas: Or, What You Did Not Hear During the War from January by Thomas North (1871)
"THE DOCTOR'S PRIZE-RING ILLUSTRATION. ^[ UT at last the Doctor gave his spell -bound audience the benefit of a prize-ring- illustration, which ran on this ..."

4. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1884)
"Faul, in prize ring, XIV. 74, 1 be. Foul or fair, in base-ball playing, II. 356, 1 c. .... prize ring ..."

5. Fifty Years of Fleet Street: Being the Life and Recollections of Sir John R by Frederick Moy Thomas (1904)
"... small Essex town in the 'thirties—Training —The Congregational School—The schoolmaster and the prize ring—Early experience of editorial duties. ..."

6. Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (1900)
"ECP The Ethics of the prize ring. WITH REMINISCENCES OF THE LATE SIR JAMES BOSWELL, BART. LOOKING oyer some old BAILY MAGAZINES lately, I found that I had ..."

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