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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bell-ringer
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A closer look revealed the familiar Salvation Army logo on the pot, but this bell-ringer was like none I recognized.
▪ The arm-chair socialists were too engrossed in scoring advantage points over each other and so paid no attention to the bell-ringer.
▪ Too flourishing, indeed, for the vicar, who objected to the time his bell-ringers sat drinking ale.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
bell-ringer

bell-ringer \bell-ringer\ n.

  1. a person who rings church bells (as for summoning the congregation).

    Syn: toller.

  2. someone who plays musical handbells.

Wiktionary
bell-ringer

n. (alternative spelling of bell ringer English)

Wikipedia
Bell-ringer

A bell-ringer is a person who rings a bell, usually a church bell, by means of a rope or other mechanism.

Usage examples of "bell-ringer".

It was evident that the bell-ringer had engaged to serve the Archdeacon for a specific time, at the expiration of which he would be sure to carry off his soul by way of payment.

I could have blessed the priest or the heritors, or whoever may be concerned with such affairs in France, who had left these sweet old bells to gladden the afternoon, and not held meetings, and made collections, and had their names repeatedly printed in the local paper, to rig up a peal of brand new, brazen, Birmingham-hearted substitutes, who should bombard their sides to the provocation of a brand-new bell-ringer, and fill the echoes of the valley with terror and riot.