Bellhouse

Quick meaning: Bellhouse is a noun meaning A structure housing a bell or bells; bell tower; belfry.

Meaning

A structure housing a bell or bells; bell tower; belfry.

Example Sentences

Such houses were called Schallenwerke, or bellhouses, because while at work the prisoners, always in chains, had bells attached to the iron neck bands they wore.

To constitute a Thane, it was necessary that he should possess a distinct office in the King's Court; or, being a churle or countryman, that he should have “fully five hides of his own land, a church, a kitchen, a bellhouse, and a boroughgate with a seat.”

Word Forms

• bellhouses
• bell-house

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include belfry, campanile, clocktower, tower, turret, bellbox.

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