"bellfounding" meaning in English

See bellfounding in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Etymology: bell + founding Etymology templates: {{compound|en|bell|founding}} bell + founding Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} bellfounding (uncountable)
  1. The process of casting bells from metal. Tags: uncountable Related terms: bellfounder
    Sense id: en-bellfounding-en-noun-4bDvnNLr Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Download JSON data for bellfounding meaning in English (1.2kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "bell",
        "3": "founding"
      },
      "expansion": "bell + founding",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "bell + founding",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "bellfounding (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1878, Thomas North, The Church Bells of Northamptonshire: Their Inscriptions, Traditions, and Peculiar Uses",
          "text": "Indeed there is every reason for believing that at the Norman Conquest the art of bellfounding was well understood, and carried to great perfection in this country: the law of Curfew could not have been carried into effect if bells had not then been in general use.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The process of casting bells from metal."
      ],
      "id": "en-bellfounding-en-noun-4bDvnNLr",
      "links": [
        [
          "cast",
          "cast"
        ],
        [
          "bell",
          "bell"
        ],
        [
          "metal",
          "metal"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "bellfounder"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bellfounding"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "bell",
        "3": "founding"
      },
      "expansion": "bell + founding",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "bell + founding",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "bellfounding (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "bellfounder"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English compound terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1878, Thomas North, The Church Bells of Northamptonshire: Their Inscriptions, Traditions, and Peculiar Uses",
          "text": "Indeed there is every reason for believing that at the Norman Conquest the art of bellfounding was well understood, and carried to great perfection in this country: the law of Curfew could not have been carried into effect if bells had not then been in general use.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The process of casting bells from metal."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cast",
          "cast"
        ],
        [
          "bell",
          "bell"
        ],
        [
          "metal",
          "metal"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bellfounding"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.