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Bellman

Bellman \Bell"man\, n. A man who rings a bell, especially to give notice of anything in the streets. Formerly, also, a night watchman who called the hours.
--Milton.

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bellman

n. 1 A town crier 2 A bellhop or bellboy

WordNet
bellman

n. someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels [syn: bellboy, bellhop]

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Bellman (disambiguation)

A bellman or town crier is an officer of the court who makes public pronouncements as required by the court, and can also be used to make public announcements in the streets.

Bellman may also refer to:

  • Bellhop
  • Bellman (surname)
  • The stand-by diver in a Diving bell
  • Bellman joke, a type of Swedish joke
  • "Bellman", a character in Lewis Carroll's poem The Hunting of the Snark
  • Bellman hangar, a prefabricated, portable aircraft hangar
  • Bellman Prize, a literature prize awarded by the Swedish Academy
  • Bellman's Head a headland point in the Stonehaven Bay, Scotland
  • Bellman and True, a 1987 film
  • Bellman, a prominent character and law enforcement position in the " Thursday Next" novels
  • A translated name for zvončari, a Croatian folk custom
Bellman (surname)

Bellman is a surname. A variant of the surname is Belman. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Carl Michael Bellman, Swedish poet and composer
  • Dmitriy Bellman, Russian artist jeweller
  • Eric Bellman, psychotherapist
  • Gina Bellman, New Zealand/English actress
  • Heiko Bellmann (1950-2014) German biologist, writer, zoologist and photographer
  • Jonathan Bellman, American musicologist
  • Richard E. Bellman, American mathematician

Fictional characters:

  • Beatrice Bellman, a character in BT commercials

Usage examples of "bellman".

I please, my lady, and you can take that to the Bellman, the Council, or all the way to the Great Panjandrum for all I care!

Bellman could add patience to her catalogue of virtues, for this was at least the sixth time Ranter had interrupted her story.

A bellman wedged himself between Estero and me, I rammed myself into the SUV, and Hooker took off while my door was still open.

I actually observed it in the belfry of the Sarova Monastery, Tambov Eparchy, where, perhaps, the two blind bellmen are showing visitors up the winding stairs to this very day.

She saw the bellmen watching her, and the clerk at the desk, and when she got outside into the warm September air, she felt a little better.

Several bellmen and the doorman remember seeing her in the coat from time to time when she first checked in, but nobody recalls seeing it in the last two or three days.

The man from Southern Rhodesia addressed the bellmen, who listened to his hateful words and thought of other things.

As we were taught in our earliest days of training, anyone could be a threat to the president: Busboys, bellmen, barbers.

The long hallway he entered thronged with people in various uniforms--housekeepers and bellmen, waitresses and housemen, bartenders and banquet waiters.

But the first of the five lectures would be given by himself, Gloster Ridley, editor of the Salterton Evening Bellman, and he was determined that it should be the best of the lot.

And it was widely admitted that under his guidance The Bellman was a very good paper.

It is such delightful bits of whimsy as this which raise the tone of The Bellman above that of any other paper which comes to my notice and give it a literary grace which is doubly distinguished in a world where style is rapidly becoming a thing of the past.

This gem, so quickly conceived and executed, had been copied by eighteen other newspapers, with appropriate credit to The Bellman, stolen by several more, and had appeared a month afterward in the magazine section of the New York Times, attributed to the late Will Rogers.

Consequently spiteful things were said of him, and it was hinted that he wore a blue apron with white frills while preparing his meal, and more than one Letter to the Editor had suggested that if he knew as much about politics, or economics, or world affairs or whatever it might be, as he did about cooking, The Bellman would be a better paper.

But Ridley was tall and thin and bald, and was referred to by the staff of The Bellman, when he was out of earshot, as Bony.