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单词 bellhouse
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bellhousen.

Forms: Also Old English bell-hús, Middle English belhows, Middle English belhowse, bellehowse, Middle English–1600s belhouse.
Etymology: < bell n.1 + house n.1 and int.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈbellhouse.
archaic and dialect.
A tower or other erection for containing a bell or set of bells; a belfry; sometimes regarded as referring spec. to a detached structure, but also applied to the belfry of a church, etc.
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bellhousea1000
clocher1354
belfryc1440
bell-tower1612
campanile1640
bell-gable1845
bell-steeple1847
belfry-tower1870
a1000 Thorpe Laws I. 190 (Bosw.) Gif ceorl hæfde fif hida agenes landes, cirican and cycenan, bell-hus.
a1100 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 327 Cloccarium, uel lucar, Belhus.
c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 648 Hoc campanare, Ae belhowse.
1483 Cath. Angl. 27/1 Belhouse, campanile.
1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 365 A Church, & a kitchin, a belhouse, and a gate.
1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 223 The bell-house stood on the said ground.
1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 12 Bell-house, the tower of a church, the belfry.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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