Meaning of Belfry | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A tower or steeple typically containing bells, especially as part of a church.
2. A part of a large tower or steeple, specifically for containing bells.
3. A shed.
   dialectal
4. A movable tower used in sieges.
   obsolete
5. An alarm-tower; a watchtower possibly containing an alarm-bell.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

““You know, this house does have a belfry filled with local bats. Maybe Laszlo went up there.” “Oh, so like my darling perverted husband, to sniff out the local bordello immediately upon arrival. [chuckles] Could you take me to the belfry?””

“From the belfries far and near the funereal deathbell tolled unceasingly while all around the gloomy precincts rolled the ominous warning of a hundred muffled drums punctuated by the hollow booming of pieces of ordnance.”

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