They're worth three points in horseshoes

Usage examples of ringers.

He drew a breath and crossed his ringers, then flung himself desperately for the stairway.

Their brows were wide and smooth above large, gently slanted eyes, their noses straight, their mouths generous, their teeth broad and white, tearing at raw chunks of buffalo meat that dribbled blood down their chins so that they wiped and licked it from their ringers, laughing.

Horses lay clawed and gutted and the Commacht warriors were cold in the snow, their weapons clutched in frozen ringers and the armored corpses of the invaders strewn around them.

In the bow, Davyd clutched his musket with white-knuckled ringers, little more color in his face.

Their hands opened to take him, ringers powerful as the manacles he had once worn closing about his wrists.

Her palms were wet, her ringers tense as they curled protectively around the hilt of her blade.