Definition of "bell-ringer" [bell-ringer]

• Alternative spelling of bell ringer. (noun)

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• "It's a novel of biting social commentary, though set far in the past (1483); the innocent Esmeralda is exploited, persecuted and condemned by the ruling classes, her only defenders the unreliable denizens of the underworld and a disabled bell-ringer."
• "As you can tell by the ongoing sluggishness of the economy, it has hardly been a bell-ringer."
• "Quasimodo is the bell-ringer and swings down on a rope from the towers of the Cathedral to rescue the Gypsy girl Esmerelda from the gallows."