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Meaning of big ring | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A type of marbles-game.

uncountable

Examples

“Boys [in the Orange Free State] played 'big ring', which may have come from the Cape Malays. A ring was drawn by scratching with a stick in the dusty surface of the school playground, or market square, about ten or 15 feet across, and the surface trodden bare and flat in the hot African sunlight.”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

Big Rip Big River Big Rock big room big room house big sagebrush