ringoaln.
/ˈrɪŋɡəʊl/, U.S. /ˈrɪŋˌɡoʊl/ Now historical.
A game in which a light ring or hoop is thrown towards a goal by means of two sticks.
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1887 Weekly Wisconsin (Milwaukee) 28 May 3/3 On an ordinary tennis court at least half a dozen games of ringoal may be played simultaneously.
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 July 3/1 A new game, called ringoal, is coming into favour this summer... It originated in India.
1894 E. F. Benson Dodo 302 The thump of tennis balls, the flying horrors of ring-goal.
1894 C. Dukes Health at School (ed. 3) xii. 470 Cricket forms a delightful exercise for girls; with lawn tennis, racquets, fives, la crosse, golf, hockey, ringoal, croquet, base-ball, and battledore and shuttlecock also.
1959 F. G. Roe Victorian Child vii. 113 Ringoal, a hybrid form of Quoits playable by both sexes, enjoyed a burst of popularity in the later 1880s.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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