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bellboxes

bellboxes is the plural of bellbox.

Meaning of bellbox

Noun

bellbox (plural bellboxes)

  1. A strong metal box that contains the ringing apparatus of an alarm.
  2. (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

Questions about bellboxes

What is bellboxes the plural of?
Bellboxes is the plural of bellbox.

Words near bellboxes in the dictionary

  1. bellbirds
  2. bellbottom
  3. bellbottomed
  4. bellbottoms
  5. bellbox
  6. bellboxes
  7. bellboy
  8. bellboys
  9. Bellbrae
  10. Bellbridge
  11. Bellbrook

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