ringman
nounEtymology From ring + -man.
1
A male entertainer who works in the ring of a circus.
2
A man within the betting ring of a racecourse; a bookmaker who works in the ring.
3
A male boxer or prizefighter.
4
A man who works in a ring where animals are exhibited.
5
An auctioneer's assistant who spots bids and communicates information back to the auctioneer.
6
Obsolete The ring finger.
- And when a man shooteth, the might of his shoote lyeth on the foremost finger, and on the ringman1545, Roger Ascham, Toxophilus, the Schole of Shootinge […], London: […] Edouardi Whytchurch, →OCLC: