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Belling

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, & Michigan See shivaree. See Regional Note at shivaree.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. Present participle of bell.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A bellowing, as of a deer in rutting time.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. In submarine operations, the use of the diving-bell.

n. Formerly, bellowing; in modern use. the noise made by a deer in rutting-time.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple

Word Usage

"He played it as he shaped it: the last low string whose reverberations set his own sword belling in anguish and shattered every other weapon inside and out of the halt Silence settled like old dust over the room."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

serenade

Verb Stem

bell

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

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