Bellcot
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Bellcot is a noun meaning Alternative spelling of bell cot.
Meaning
Alternative spelling of bell cot.
Example Sentences
They rode out through the north end of the town and they halted before an adobe building with a corrugated tin roof and an empty mud bellcot above it.
The exterior is simple, not to say severe, a crazy wooden bellcot above the western gable alone relieving the skyline of the solid old stone-tiled roof, while wooden shutters, all awry, obscure the ancient windows.
The belfry, which rises from the eastern gable of the nave, is peculiarly unsuited to its style and position, being of that combination of bellcot (for three bells in two stories) and little spire, which is only tolerable at the west end of a small First or early Middle-Pointed building, but is totally inadequate for the place which it is made to occupy in the present design.
Word Forms
- bellcots
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include bell gable, boltel, belfry, bowtel, bell, boultin.
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