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belled en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /bɛld/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Having a bell attached.
    • He rode back around the common, mustering every mob of horses except those which contained belled stock. 1945, Tom Ronan, Strangers on the Ophir, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 125:
  2. (not-comparable) Having bells (especially around the neck of an animal).
    • Or, three falcons close proper, belled gules, a mullet for difference. 1910, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour, page 539:
  3. (not-comparable, of a pipe or tube) Having a thicker hollow end, for example to allow pipes to plug into each other.
    • A pipe with one belled and one plain end.

Deriveds

unbelled · belled buzzard

belled en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /bɛld/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of bell
    form of bell