big ring

noun

A type of marbles-game.

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Meanings

nounbig ring (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA type of marbles-game.

    Boys [in the Orange Free State] played 'big ring', which may have come from the Cape Malays. A ring was drawn by scratching with a stick in the dusty surface of the school playground, or market square, about ten or 15 feet across, and the surface trodden bare and flat in the hot African sunlight.

    1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 29
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