bellringing
nounEtymology From Middle English belle rynggyng, bell-ryngyng, bel ryngynge, belryngynge, equivalent to bell + ringing.
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Usually The ringing of bells, as performed by a bellringer.
- He was at last obliged, in consequence of it, to take his departure, for nothing has more contributed to the emigration of the Troll-folk out of the country than the increasing piety of the people, and their taking to bell-ringing.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 184: