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Ringleader vs Ringer - What's the difference?

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Ringleader is a related term of ringer.


As nouns the difference between ringleader and ringer

is that ringleader is a leader of a group of people, especially an unofficial group while ringer is (label) a fan of the novel (the lord of the rings) by and/or the film trilogy based on it.

ringleader

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a leader of a group of people, especially an unofficial group
  • a person who starts and leads a disturbance (such as a riot), a conspiracy, or a criminal gang
  • * The police arrested the ringleaders of the smuggling operation.
  • * (1590): William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 2 : A sort of naughty persons, lewdly bent, / Under the countenance and confederacy / Of Lady Eleanor, the protector's wife, / The ringleader and head of all this rout, / Have practis'd dangerously against your state...

    • ringer

    English

    Etymology 1

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who rings, especially a bell ringer.
  • * 1863 , ,
    • Pull, if ye never pull?d before;
    Good ringers , pull your best," quoth he.
  • (mining) A crowbar.
    • (Simmonds)

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (games) In the game of horseshoes, the event of the horseshoe landing around the pole.
  • (uncountable, games) A game of marbles where players attempt to knock each other's marbles out of a ring drawn on the ground.

    • Etymology 3

    Probably from ring the changes.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (horse racing) A horse fraudently entered in a race using the name of another horse.
  • (sport) A person highly proficient at a skill or sport who is brought in, often fraudulently, to supplement a team.
  • A person, animal, or entity which resembles another so closely as to be taken for the other; now usually in the phrase dead ringer .
    • Derived terms
    * dead ringer

    Etymology 4

    .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, dialect) A top performer.
  • (Australia) The champion shearer of a shearing shed.
  • (Australia) A stockman, a cowboy.
  • * 1964 , Alec Bolton, Walkabout?s Australia , , page 107,
    • The ringers are the stockmen on a station. The cattle pass through their hands before the drovers lift them and take them along the stock routes that lead to the killing pens in cities.
  • * 1987 , Geoffrey Atkinson, Philip Quirk. The Australian Adventure: The Explorer?s Guide to the Island Continent , page 175,
    • This vast holding is run by six ringers' and six boys. A '''ringer''' is a qualified stationhand and a boy is a trainee. It takes four years for a boy to become a ' ringer .
  • * 2005 , Jake Drake, The Wild West in Australia and America , page 156,
    • Most people associated with the Australian beef industry believe the ringer?s skill of throwing cattle by the tail to be a practice that is purely Australian. There is ample evidence however, that it was practised in South and Central America long before it was developed here.

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