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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.






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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



Words linked to "Belling" :   serenade



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