bellfounder
nounEtymology From bell + founder, an alteration (swapping out obsolete yoter (“pourer, founder”) for founder) of Middle English belyotar, belgietere, belleyetere (“bellfounder”).
1
Someone who makes bells by foundry work (casting, grinding, polishing).
- Near-synonyms: bellmaker, belleter (archaic)
- It is well known that there were bellfounders at Reading in the sixteenth century, and probably much earlier.1883, The Antiquarian Magazine & Bibliographer, volume 4, page 110:
- Related terms
- bellfounding, bell ringer, campanologist, campanology