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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A handle, as of a jar or other vessel, formed by a ring, especially a free ring hanging loose in a socket or eyelet attached to the body of the vessel.

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Examples

  • Even Charles Davis, drenched and shivering, hung on beside me to the brass ring-handle of the chart-house door.

    CHAPTER XXXVIII 2010

  • Then the children saw a trap-door, let flat into the floor, with a ring-handle to pull it up.

    Five Go To Smugglers Top Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1983

  • CONE-PICK of steel wire, No. 18, 1.5 inch long, with a ring-handle 0.5 inch in diameter; it is carried, with the cone-key, in the pocket in front of the musket cartridge-box.

    Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance

  • Even Charles Davis, drenched and shivering, hung on beside me to the brass ring-handle of the chart-house door.

    Chapter 38 1914

  • Davis, drenched and shivering, hung on beside me to the brass ring-handle of the chart-house door.

    The Mutiny of the Elsinore Jack London 1896

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