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bell-horses

bell-horses is the plural of bell-horse.

Meaning of bell-horse

Noun

bell-horse (plural bell-horses)

  1. (industrial relations) Synonym of speeder.
    • Shortly before the strike in London began, his 'bell-horse' had been fined by the masons' union for breaking their regulations on work and price.2014, John Rule, The Labouring Classes in Early Industrial England, 1750-1850, page 343
    Synonyms:
    speeder

Questions about bell-horses

What is bell-horses the plural of?
Bell-horses is the plural of bell-horse.

Words near bell-horses in the dictionary

  1. bell-founder
  2. bell-founders
  3. bell-gable
  4. bell-gables
  5. bell-horse
  6. bell-horses
  7. Bell-Kochen-Specker theorem
  8. Bell-Krupp process
  9. bell-like
  10. bell-magpie
  11. bell-magpies

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