▪ I. ˈinˌring, n. Sc. Curling.
[f. in adv. 12 d + ring n.]
A shot in which the player's stone is made to hit the inside of another stone so as to glance from it and hit the winner, taking it out and lying shot itself: now more usually termed inwick.
| 1789 D. Davidson Seasons 169 (Jam.) Syne hurling..Wi' inrings nice and fair He struck the winner frae the cock. Ibid. 171 (Jam.) Here stands the winner..Immoveable save by a nice inring. 1824 Mactaggart Gallovid. Encycl. s.v. Inwick, To inwick a stone..is different from a common open inring, the two are often confounded with other, but they are quite different. |
Hence inringing vbl. n., playing an inring.
| 1831 in Blackw. Mag. XXX. 970 Wicking—or In-ringing, the prettiest and most scientific point in the game by far..taking an inner angle off a side-shot, in such a manner as to change and direct the course of your stone upon the one to be projected—or else to effect the same, when the case permitted, by drawing off the said shot. |
▪ II. inring, inripen
obs. ff. enring, enripen.