Crossword clues for bell tent
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bell \Bell\, n. [AS. belle, fr. bellan to bellow. See Bellow.]
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A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck.
Note: Bells have been made of various metals, but the best have always been, as now, of an alloy of copper and tin.
The Liberty Bell, the famous bell of the Philadelphia State House, which rang when the Continental Congress declared the Independence of the United States, in 1776. It had been cast in 1753, and upon it were the words ``Proclaim liberty throughout all the land, to all the inhabitants thereof.''
A hollow perforated sphere of metal containing a loose ball which causes it to sound when moved.
Anything in the form of a bell, as the cup or corol of a flower. ``In a cowslip's bell I lie.''
--Shak.(Arch.) That part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital.
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pl. (Naut.) The strikes of the bell which mark the time; or the time so designated.
Note: On shipboard, time is marked by a bell, which is struck eight times at 4, 8, and 12 o'clock. Half an hour after it has struck ``eight bells'' it is struck once, and at every succeeding half hour the number of strokes is increased by one, till at the end of the four hours, which constitute a watch, it is struck eight times.
To bear away the bell, to win the prize at a race where the prize was a bell; hence, to be superior in something.
--Fuller.To bear the bell, to be the first or leader; -- in allusion to the bellwether or a flock, or the leading animal of a team or drove, when wearing a bell.
To curse by bell, book, and candle, a solemn form of excommunication used in the Roman Catholic church, the bell being tolled, the book of offices for the purpose being used, and three candles being extinguished with certain ceremonies.
--Nares.To lose the bell, to be worsted in a contest. ``In single fight he lost the bell.''
--Fairfax.To shake the bells, to move, give notice, or alarm.
--Shak.Note: Bell is much used adjectively or in combinations; as, bell clapper; bell foundry; bell hanger; bell-mouthed; bell tower, etc., which, for the most part, are self-explaining.
Bell arch (Arch.), an arch of unusual form, following the curve of an ogee.
Bell cage, or Bell carriage (Arch.), a timber frame constructed to carry one or more large bells.
Bell cot (Arch.), a small or subsidiary construction, frequently corbeled out from the walls of a structure, and used to contain and support one or more bells.
Bell deck (Arch.), the floor of a belfry made to serve as a roof to the rooms below.
Bell founder, one whose occupation it is to found or cast bells.
Bell foundry, or Bell foundery, a place where bells are founded or cast.
Bell gable (Arch.), a small gable-shaped construction, pierced with one or more openings, and used to contain bells.
Bell glass. See Bell jar.
Bell hanger, a man who hangs or puts up bells.
Bell pull, a cord, handle, or knob, connecting with a bell or bell wire, and which will ring the bell when pulled.
--Aytoun.Bell punch, a kind of conductor's punch which rings a bell when used.
Bell ringer, one who rings a bell or bells, esp. one whose business it is to ring a church bell or chime, or a set of musical bells for public entertainment.
Bell roof (Arch.), a roof shaped according to the general lines of a bell.
Bell rope, a rope by which a church or other bell is rung.
Bell tent, a circular conical-topped tent.
Bell trap, a kind of bell shaped stench trap.
Wiktionary
n. A tent having a bell-like shape.
WordNet
n. a bell-shaped tent
Wikipedia
A bell tent is a human shelter for inhabiting, traveling or leisure. The design is a simple structure, supported by a single central pole, covered with cotton canvas. The stability of the tent is reinforced with tension by guy ropes connected around the top of the walls and being held down by pegs around the circumference to the ground. It has a circular floor plan of some 10ft and larger.
The multiple sizes of bell tents can be suited to their use or preference and most have a spacious interior, with room to sleep a number of people.
Usage examples of "bell tent".
He stood up, picked her up in his arms and carried her carefully to the bell tent under the spreading wild fig tree.
He waited impatiently while the family moved their meagre possessions into the bell tent.
With Marion's blessing she purchased a small bell tent of her own and erected it near the laboratory where she worked, so that when the others took their noonday siesta, she could slip back to her work bench and forget all her insoluble problems in the totally absorbing task of fitting together the shattered scraps.
He generally avoided crowds, and the cramped conditions in the huge bell tent would have been abhorrent to him.
His rolls of flesh, that could scarcely be contained by a dark-blue bell tent of a funsuit, sagged and flowed and sweated into a monster of a chair, a creation of chrome and black leather that contained him like a vat.
Pegs gargantuan frame, sporting a Norman Wades OK t-shirt the size of a bell tent, could be made out swinging bundles of the Brentford Mercury on to the counter and dispensing souvenir windmills and flags to all comers.
There was a cone of pristine white canvas, an officer's bell tent, recently pitched beside his own rudely thatched lean-to shelter.