单词 | bell-ringer |
释义 | bell-ringern. One whose business it is to ring a church or town bell at stated times or on stated occasions. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > parish official > [noun] > with duty to ring bell bell-ringer1543 society > faith > worship > other practices > [noun] > bell-ringing > one who carries out bell-ringer1543 society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > bell-ringer > [noun] ringerc1425 bell-ringer1543 toller1550 knoller1611 stretch-rope1634 college youth1668 change ringer1756 handbell ringera1802 tintinnabulary1825 tintinnabulist1830 treble-ringer1899 1543 J. Bale Yet Course at Romyshe Foxe sig. C.viij Parrysh clarkes, and bellryngers. 1682 N. O. tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin iv. 133 Who should come in, but Girard the Bell-ringer? 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge i. 232 The parish clerk and bell-ringer of Chigwell. Derivatives bell-ringing n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > other practices > [noun] > bell-ringing bell-ringingc1350 society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > bell-ringing > [noun] bell-ringOE ringingc1300 bell-ringingc1350 knoll1379 toll1452 tollinga1513 jowing1516 round ringinga1661 tintinnabulism1826 clocking1863 clappering1874 tintinnabulation1883 c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 7 Hali water, and haly bred, Liȝt, and belryngynges. 1408 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 15 Wyth Belle Ryngyng..and Masse of requiem. 1883 Daily News 30 July 5/8 Bellringing showy equipages conducted by postillions and drawn by four strong horses. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1350 |
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