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Bellhouse. World English Historical Dictionary

Bellhouse. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1888, rev. 2024. Bellhouse arch. and dial. Also 1 bell-hús, 4 belhows, 5 belhowse, bellehowse, 5–7 belhouse. [f. BELL sb.1 + HOUSE.] A tower or other erection for containing a bell or set of bells; a belfry; properly used of a detached structure, but also applied to the belfry of a church, etc.

1 a. 1000.  Thorpe’s Laws, I. 190 (Bosw.). Gif ceorl hæfde fif hida aʓenes landes, cirican and cycenan, bell-hus.

2 a. 1100.  Gloss., in Wr.-Wülcker, Voc., 327. Cloccarium, uel lucar, Belhus. Ibid. (c. 1425), 648. Hoc campanare, Ae belhowse.

3 1483.  Cath. Angl., 27/1. Belhouse, campanile.

4 1598.  Hakluyt, Voy., I. 126. A Church and a Kitchin, a Belhouse, and a gate.

5 1766.  Entick, London, IV. 223. The bell-house stood on the said ground.

6 1855.  Whitby Gloss., Bell-house, the tower of a church, the belfry.

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