ringman n. an auctioneer’s assistant. Editorial Note: OED has a sense of ringman ‘a sporting man; a bookmaker’ to which this could be related via an original shared meaning of ‘a person who occupies or attends an enclosed area.’ (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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