n. [ Icel. kringla orb; akin to kring around, and to D. kring circle, and to E. cringe, crank. ]
n.
A primacy of order, such an one as the ringleader hath in a dance. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]
The ringleaders were apprehended, tried, fined, and imprisoned. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Zool.) The ringed dotterel, or ring plover. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Ring + -let. ]
You demi-puppets, that
By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make,
Whereof the ewe not bites. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
[ Her golden tresses ] in wanton ringlets waved. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A springe. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A little spring. [ 1913 Webster ]
But yet from out the little hill
Oozes the slender springlet still. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Having no strings. [ 1913 Webster ]
His tongue is now a stringless instrument. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F. tringle. ] A curtain rod for a bedstead. [ 1913 Webster ]