ppl. a. [UN-1 8. Cf. MDu. ongeringet, older Da. uringet.] Of swine: Not furnished with a nose-ring. (Cf. UNRUNG ppl. a.2)

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1510.  Burgh Rec. Prestwick (Maitl. Club), 42. For þe wrangwis worttyne of þar swyne, & wnryngyt.

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1576.  Gascoigne, Steele Gl. (Arb.), 70. Like rude vnringed swine.

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1624.  in H. Maclean, Watermillock Reg. (1908), 157. Sub poena for every swine so unringed iiijd.

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1664.  Butler, Hud., II. II. 310. Is’t fit [it] should … Be forc’d t’ impeach a broken hedge, And Pigs unring’d.

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1733.  in Climenson, Hist. Shiplake (1894), 307. No person … shall suffer his hogs to go unringed.

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