bellbox

noun — 2 senses

bellbox

noun

Etymology From bell + box.

1

A strong metal box that contains the ringing apparatus of an alarm.

2

Business, Mining Historical A bell-shaped apparatus used to extract broken rods from the bottom of a mine shaft.

  • My foreman with his faked assistant had littered the place with all my apparatus, my bellbox, my crowsfoot, the V-drills, the rods, and the weight, but Malone insisted that we disregard all that and descend ourselves to the lowest level.1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed:

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