Lexicographical Neighbors of Ringtaw
Literary usage of Ringtaw
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1884)
"... said of a marble driven up when it lodges on the small ring at ringtaw.
Fate [fait"], the past tense of fight for fought. Fought is also used, ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1868)
"He was good at ringtaw, bad at Greek grammar ; and ho abominated those truly
abominable things called decimal fractions. With that vivacity of expression ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1868)
"I will give you the life of a distinguished Jones. It will not take long. As a
boy, Jones was much like other boys. He was good at ringtaw, bad at Greek ..."
4. Glossary of Words in Use in Cornwall by Margaret Ann Courtney, Thomas Quiller Couch (1880)
"Fat, or Fattened, said of a marble driven up when it lodges on the small ring at
ringtaw. Fate [fait-], the past tense of fight ..."
5. Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases by Anne Elizabeth Baker (1854)
"by the sound whether the vessel be without a flaw, or the metal without alloy.
RING or ringtaw. A game at marbles. ..."
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