单词 | bellhouse |
释义 | bellhousen. 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. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > tower or steeple > [noun] > bell-tower 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). < n.a1000 |
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