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iron ringer


A person born in Cobar: So-and-so is an iron ringer. An iron ringer is in the iron ring which can never be broken.

Contributor's comments: The Iron ringer was used in the town Cobar to differentiate between people claiming to be local due to the transient nature of the town population, the only iron ringers were the ones born and bred in Cobar.