bell-ringing

  • 71Ringing the Devil's Knell —    About ten o clock on *Christmas Eve, ringers gather at All Saints church, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, to Ring the Devil s Knell. The church s tenor bell, called Black Tom of Southill, is rung once for every year since Christ s birth. It is called the …

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  • 72bell lap — the final lap in a race of repeated circuits, signaled by the ringing of a bell. [1970 75] …

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  • 73ringing tone — sound of a bell, jingling sound …

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  • 74ringing loft — noun : a floor for bell ringers in the tower of a church …

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  • 75Change ringing — Triples redirects here. For other uses, see Triple (disambiguation). Bell ringing practice in Stoke Gabriel parish church, Devon, England Change ringing is the art of ringing a set of tuned bells in a series of mathematical patterns called… …

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  • 76Church bell — Cutaway drawing of a church bell, showing construction. A church bell is a bell which is rung in a (especially Christian) church either to signify the hour or the time for worshippers to go to church, perhaps to attend a wedding, funeral, or… …

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  • 77Method ringing — (also known as scientific ringing) is a form of change ringing (the practice of ringing a series of mathematical permutations on tuned bells, rather than a melody). In method ringing, the ringers are guided from permutation to permutation by… …

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  • 78Illinois Freedom Bell — Geobox|Monument name = Illinois Freedom Bell other name = Illinois State Freedom Bell other name1 = State of Illinois Freedom Bell category = Town bell image size = image caption = The Illinois Freedom Bell in Mt. Morris. etymology = country =… …

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  • 79Dead bell — The 1641 Glasgow Deid bell , now on display in Glasgow s People s Palace on Glasgow Green. A Dead bell or deid bell (Scots), also a death , mort , lych , passing bell or skellet bell [1] was a form of hand bell used in Scotland and northern… …

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  • 80change ringing — the art of ringing a series of tuned bells of different tones, as those hung in a church tower, according to any of various orderly sequences. [1870 75] * * * Traditional English art of ringing tower or hand bells in a succession of different… …

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