Definitions

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  • noun boxing Tactical skill and positioning in the boxing ring.
  • noun The skills necessary to compete in a dog show.

Etymologies

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From ring +‎ -craft.

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Examples

  • Tonight's referee, Steve "Let them eat gloves" Smoger is famously lenient on issues of "creative ringcraft", so we can only hope that foul play from either boxer doesn't have a decisive influence on the outcome.

    Andre Ward beats Carl Froch - as it happened! | Graham Parker 2011

  • The England No1 overawed some opponents, and showed his experienced ringcraft in escaping occasional danger moments.

    British Championship produces tough contest for second and third place 2010

  • Behold them facing each other, the brown-skinned fighting man wise in ringcraft and champion of a hundred fights, and the white-fleshed athlete, each alike clean and bright of eye, light-poised of foot, quivering for swift action, while the Old Un looks needfully from one to the other, watch in one bony hand, the other upraised.

    The Definite Object A Romance of New York Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • What need is there to tell the numerous feints, the lightning shifts, the different tricks of in-fighting and all the cunning strategy and ringcraft that Joe brought to bear and carefully explained between rounds?

    The Definite Object A Romance of New York Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • Handicapped as he was by lack of poundage, Dublin's pet lamb made up for it by superlative skill in ringcraft.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • It was at such a moment that ringcraft was needed, and luckily for Jim two masters of it were at his back.

    Rodney stone Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1896

  • It was in taking advantage of such circumstances that the art of ringcraft lay, and many a shrewd and vigilant second had won a losing battle for his man.

    Rodney stone Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1896

  • It was in taking advantage of such circumstances that the art of ringcraft lay, and many a shrewd and vigilant second had won a losing battle for his man.

    Rodney Stone Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1896

  • It was at such a moment that ringcraft was needed, and luckily for Jim two masters of it were at his back.

    Rodney Stone Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1896

  • It was at such a moment that ringcraft was needed, and luckily for Jim two masters of it were at his back.

    Rodney Stone Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

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