Belfry
['belfrɪ] or ['bɛlfri]
Definition
(noun.) a room (often at the top of a tower) where bells are hung.
Typist: Waldo--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A movable tower erected by besiegers for purposes of attack and defense.
(n.) A bell tower, usually attached to a church or other building, but sometimes separate; a campanile.
(n.) A room in a tower in which a bell is or may be hung; or a cupola or turret for the same purpose.
(n.) The framing on which a bell is suspended.
Edited by Dorothy
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Campanile.
Editor: Tess
Definition
n. the part of a steeple or tower in which bells are hung: a bell-tower sometimes standing apart: a movable wooden tower used in the Middle Ages in attacking a fortification.—adj. Bel′fried having a belfry.
Inputed by Edna
Examples
- It was as if from some aerial belfry, high up above the stir and jar of the earth, there was a bell continually tolling, 'All are shadows! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The ringers cracked a bell in Briarfield belfry; it is dissonant to this day. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The gun was carried to the belfry and put together. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Typist: Oliver