Belfry: Definition and part of speech

Belfry

  1. n. The framing on which a bell is suspended.
  2. n. A movable tower erected by besiegers for purposes of attack and defense.
  3. n. A bell tower, usually attached to a church or other building, but sometimes separate; a campanile.
  4. n. A room in a tower in which a bell is or may be hung; or a cupola or turret for the same purpose.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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