belled
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Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
belled (not comparable)
- Having a bell attached.
- 1945, Tom Ronan, Strangers on the Ophir, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 125:
- He rode back around the common, mustering every mob of horses except those which contained belled stock.
- (heraldry) Having bells (especially around the neck of an animal).
- 1910, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour, page 539:
- Or, three falcons close proper, belled gules, a mullet for difference.
- (of a pipe or tube) Having a thicker hollow end, for example to allow pipes to plug into each other.
- A pipe with one belled and one plain end.
Verb edit
belled
- simple past and past participle of bell
References edit
- The Manual of Heraldry, Fifth Edition, by Anonymous, London, 1862, online at [1]
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Moroccan Arabic بلد (ballad).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
belled (Tifinagh spelling ⴱⴻⵍⵍⴻⴷ)
- to acclimatize, to habituate
- to take up residence in
Conjugation edit
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Derived terms edit
- Verbal noun: abelled (“word”)
- lbaladiyya (“municipality”)
- abeldi (“local”)