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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_92215" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_92215" /> == | ||
<p> '''(1):''' (n.) | <p> '''(1):''' (n.) A room in a tower in which a bell is or may be hung; or a cupola or turret for the same purpose. </p> <p> '''(2):''' (n.) A bell tower, usually attached to a church or other building, but sometimes separate; a campanile. </p> <p> '''(3):''' (n.) The framing on which a bell is suspended. </p> <p> '''(4):''' (n.) A movable tower erected by besiegers for purposes of attack and defense. </p> | ||
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_24253" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_24253" /> == | ||
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Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): (n.) A room in a tower in which a bell is or may be hung; or a cupola or turret for the same purpose.
(2): (n.) A bell tower, usually attached to a church or other building, but sometimes separate; a campanile.
(3): (n.) The framing on which a bell is suspended.
(4): (n.) A movable tower erected by besiegers for purposes of attack and defense.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]
is a bell-tower, or campanile, usually forming part of a church, but sometimes detached from it, as at Evesham, Berkeley, Chichester Cathedral, Walton, Norfolk, and Ledbury, Herefordshire, etc. At Lapwortti, Warwickshire, the belfry is connected with the church by a covered passage. This term is also applied to the room in the tower in which the bells are hung. At Pembridge, in Herefordshire, there is a detached belfry built entirely of wood, the frame in which the bells are hulng rising at once from the ground, with merely a casing of boards. (See Tower).