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rinker dial. rare.|ˈrɪŋkə(r)|
[f. rink, dial. var. ring n.1 + -er1: cf. ring a circle into which marbles are thrown (Sc. Nat. Dict.) and ringer1 1.]
A marble (see quot.1); a game of marbles.
1910A. Bennett Clayhanger i. i. 6 They were not the paltry marble of today, plaything of infants, but the majestic ‘rinker’, black with white spots, the king of marbles in an era when whole populations practised the game. Ibid. 9 The open gates of a manufactory disclosed six men playing the noble game of rinkers on a smooth patch of ground... They were celebrated marble-players, and..they shot the rinkers from their stubby thumbs with a cannon-like force and precision. |