Tennyson, Geraint

I'll tell you what, West, you'll have to ring them - pa the word for all hands to follow one another in a circle at a little distance apart. A. C. Grant , Bush Life in Queensland, II. 126. 3. In the manège , to exercise by causing to run round in a ring while being held by a long rein; lunge. She caught a glimpse, through the gla door opening on the park, of the General, and a fine horse they were ringing , and she hurried out. Mi Edge worth , Helen, vi. 4. To provide with a ring or rings; mark or decorate with rings; especially, to fit with a metallic ring, as the finger, or as an animal or its nose; also, to furnish with rings, or attach rings to, for the line to run in, as an anglers' rod. On alle hure fyue fyngres rycheliche yrynged , And ther-on rede rubies and other riche stones. Piers Plowman (C), iii. 12. Ring these fingers with thy household worms. Shak ., K. John, iii. 4. 31. 5. To wed with a marriage-ring. [Rare.] I was born of a true man and a ring'd wife. Tennyson , Queen Mary, i. 1. 6. In hort ., to cut out a ring of bark from, as from a branch or root, in order to obstruct the return of the sap and oblige it to accumulate above the part operated on. One of the expedients for inducing a state of fruitfulne in trees is the ringing of the branches or stem. Encyc . Brit ., XII. 244. Gaunt trunks of trees, which had been rung [erroneously used for ringed ] and allowed to die slowly, stood like white skeletons waiting to be felled and burned.