bellfounder

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noun

Someone who makes bells by foundry work (casting, grinding, polishing).

“Near-synonyms: bellmaker, belleter (archaic)”

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bellmakerbelleter
OriginMiddle English belyotar →
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Meanings

nounbellfounder (plural bellfounders)

plural bellfounders

  1. Someone who makes bells by foundry work (casting, grinding, polishing).

    Near-synonyms: bellmaker, belleter (archaic)

    1 more example

    It is well known that there were bellfounders at Reading in the sixteenth century, and probably much earlier.

    1883, The Antiquarian Magazine & Bibliographer, volume 4, page 110

    Synonyms: bellmaker, belleter

Synonyms & antonyms

nounSomeone who makes bells by foundry work (casting, grinding, polishing).

Similar
bellmakerbelleter
Also see
bellmaker

Origin

  1. Middle Englishbelyotar
  2. Englishbellfounder

From bell + founder, an alteration (swapping out obsolete yoter (“pourer, founder”) for founder) of Middle English belyotar, belgietere, belleyetere (“bellfounder”).

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