belled
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɛld/
- Rhymes: -ɛld
Adjective
belled (not comparable)
- Having a bell attached.
- 1945, Tom Ronan, Strangers on the Ophir, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 125:
- He rode back around the common, mustering every mob of horses except those which contained belled stock.
- (heraldry) Having bells (especially around the neck of an animal).
- 1910, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour, page 539:
- Or, three falcons close proper, belled gules, a mullet for difference.
- (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.
Derived terms
Tarifit
Etymology
Borrowed from Moroccan Arabic بلد (ballad).
Conjugation
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Derived terms
- Verbal noun: abelled (“word”)
- lbaladiyya (“municipality”)
- abeldi (“local”)
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