Meaning

2 senses

  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.

Origin

From bell + box.

From bell + box.

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Forms

plural: bellboxes
Singularbellbox
Pluralbellboxes

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
belittlebellA1belladonnabellboybellebellhop
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