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Belling   /bˈɛlɪŋ/   Listen
Belling

noun
1.
A noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple.  Synonyms: callathump, callithump, charivari, chivaree, shivaree.



Bell

verb
(past & past part. belled; pres. part. belling)
1.
Attach a bell to.



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"Belling" Quotes from Famous Books



... ting, it went on and on, this soft belling of his love, this amorous music of our ...
— The Arctic Prairies • Ernest Thompson Seton

... colonial's cattle-kraal once. His skill had multiplied as he built on at the great church, and now he was a master craftsman. Doggedly he was building up again the rain-ruined bastions. The work was going with a swing, if a slow one. The scent was no longer a cold one. The pack were belling and chiming over it, and they were running with their ...
— Cinderella in the South - Twenty-Five South African Tales • Arthur Shearly Cripps

... she love me still? I would not that. I know not what I would"—but said to her,— "Yet weep not thou, lest, if thy mate return, He find thy favor changed and love thee not"— Then pressing day by day thro' Lyonesse Last in a roky hollow, belling, heard The hounds of Mark, and felt the goodly hounds Yelp at his heart, but, turning, past and gain'd Tintagil, half in sea, and high on land, ...
— The Last Tournament • Alfred Lord Tennyson

... was awake that night, and throughout Christendom a sombre murmur hung in the keen air over the countryside like the belling of bees in the heather, and this murmurous tumult grew to a clangour in the cities. It was the tolling of the bells in a million belfry towers and steeples, summoning the people to sleep no more, to sin no more, but to gather in their churches and pray. And overhead, growing larger and ...
— Tales of Space and Time • Herbert George Wells



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