Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art of ringing a peal of bells in a regularly varying order, so that all the possible combinations may be made.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun ringing tuned bells in a fixed order that is continually changing. See
change{9} , n.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun ringing tuned bells in a fixed order that is continually changing
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Examples
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On Hampsfell, the nearby ridge "most likely to appeal to a semi-retired fellwaker" according to Alfred Wainwright, ramblers treading their way over emerald turf and past limestone pavements sometimes hear the priory bells as they reach the stone-built tower of the Hospice, with its views aptly fit to go with the sound of the change-ringing below.
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I did not feel the lack for all of the change-ringing neepery that fills the novel.
Archive 2009-11-01 Victoria Janssen 2009
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I don't know how far back you've looked in the archives of my change-ringing ramblings - you do realize, don't you? that this whole crazy thing was triggered in the first place by my desire to design a sock based on The Nine Tailors.
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Somewhere out in the blogosphere I encountered a woman who had seen change-ringing patterns needlepointed on kneelers in a little church in Cardiff.
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I envy your practical experience with change-ringing.
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I did not feel the lack for all of the change-ringing neepery that fills the novel.
The Nine Tailors - Peter Wimsey on tv Victoria Janssen 2009
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In several places the first line of a change-ringing chart was damaged or missing; since these lines always read “123456” they are not separately noted.
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Unfortunately a large number of "ancients" have been recast, owing chiefly to the craze for change-ringing which flourished in England between 1750 and 1830.
English Villages 1892
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It was not until the seventeenth century that change-ringing became general, and our old bells suffered much at the hands of the followers of the new fashion.
English Villages 1892
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Canon Simpson was an enthusiast about bells, not only about "change-ringing," on which subject he was a recognised authority, but also about the designing and casting of bells.
Here, There and Everywhere Frederick Spencer Hamilton 1892
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