A combination in jobbing or in politics. “The Courthouse ring” is disagreeably powerful in many American cities. Ringster. A member of such a ring.
1869. Stocks are what brokers make them, and their varying rate is determined by a “ring.”—J. H. Browne, ‘The Great Metropolis,’ p. 48.
1872. The Tammany Ring which is to take the place of the feudal lord.—Holmes, ‘The Poet at the Breakfast-Table,’ ch. 6. (N.E.D.)
1881. The ringsters at Harrisburg, who oppose the consideration of a Tax bill.—Phila. Record, No. 3428 (Id.).
