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Bell crank

A lever whose two arms form a right angle or nearly a right angle having its fulcrum at the apex of the angle It is used in bell pulls and in changing the direction of bell wires at angles of rooms etc and also in machinery...


Crank

A bent portion of an axle or shaft or an arm keyed at right angles to the end of a shaft by which motion is imparted to or received from it also used to change circular into reciprocating motion or reciprocating into circular motion See Bell crank...


Cranked

Formed with or having a bend or crank as a cranked axle...


Bell

Bell. As to rent by ringing church bells, see Doe d. Edney v. Benham, (1845) 7 QB 976; and for a case of nuisance by bell-ringing, see Soltau v. De Held, (1851) 2 Sim NS 133. As to annoyance in street by ringing doorbell, see (English) Town Police Clauses Act, 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 89), s. 28; (English) Metropolitan Police Act, 1839 (2 & 3 Vict. c. 47), s. 54; and STREET OFFENCES....


Belled

Hung with a bell or bells...


Mote-bell

Mote-bell, the bell which was used by the Saxons to summon people to the Court....


Sanctus Bell

Sanctus Bell, a bell tolled in the Communion Service at the moment of the elevation of the sacred elements. The rite is illegal in the Church of England, Re St. John the Evangelist, 1909, P. 6....


Bell bearer

A Brazilian leaf hopper Bocydium tintinnabuliferum remarkable for the four bell shaped appendages of its thorax...


Belle lettrist

One versed in belles lettres...


Bell jar

A glass vessel varying in size open at the bottom and closed at the top like a bell and having a knob or handle at the top for lifting it It is used for a great variety of purposes as with the air pump and for holding gases also for keeping the dust from articles exposed to view...


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