bellfounder
English edit
Etymology edit
From bell + founder, an alteration (swapping out obsolete yoter (“pourer, founder”) for founder) of Middle English belyotar, belgietere, belleyetere (“bellfounder”).
Noun edit
bellfounder (plural bellfounders)
- Someone who makes bells.
- Synonym: bellmaker
- 1883, The Antiquarian Magazine & Bibliographer, volume 4, page 110:
- It is well known that there were bellfounders at Reading in the sixteenth century, and probably much earlier.