belled

• IPA^(key): /bɛld/
• Rhymes: -ɛld

belled (not comparable)

1. Having a bell attached.
   • 1945, Tom Ronan, Strangers on the Ophir, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 125:

     He rode back around the common, mustering every mob of horses except those which contained belled stock.

2. (heraldry) Having bells (especially around the neck of an animal).
3. (of a pipe or tube) Having a thicker hollow end, for example to allow pipes to plug into each other.

   A pipe with one belled and one plain end.

belled

1. simple past tense and past participle of bell

• The Manual of Heraldry, Fifth Edition, by Anonymous, London, 1862, online at

• Bedell, bedell