Definitions for belfries

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belfries bel·fry

Spelling: [bel-free]

IPA: /ˈbɛl fri/

Belfries is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 268 anagrams from letters in belfries (beefilrs).

Definitions for belfries

noun

1. a bell tower, either attached to a church or other building or standing apart.
2. the part of a steeple or other structure in which a bell is hung.
3. a frame of timberwork that holds or encloses a bell.
4. Slang. head; mind:

Idioms

1. have bats in one's belfry. bat2 (def 3).

Origin of belfries

1225-75; Middle English belfray, apparently blend of earlier berfray (Middle French Germanic) and Medieval Latin belfredus, dissimilated variant of berefredus Germanic; compare Middle High Ge

Examples for belfries

The other tower, which is on the north, is called the belfry.

She knew where the rope hung which pulled the bell in the belfry.

Those in front also saw and bombarded the belfry with shot and pistol ball.

The ringing-floor is on the next stage, and the belfry is the floor above.

Ere Sophie came back to me, there was a bell-stroke from the belfry.

Jarvis wouldn't say that; but he didn't deny that there might have been a few cobwebs in the belfry.

That is not a belfry: it is a chimney, the bakehouse chimney.

At that moment eleven o'clock sounded from the belfry of Rocreuse.

On examining the belfry, it was discovered that some persons had carried off the clapper of the bell.

One would have said that there was no longer a musician in the belfry.