To be the first or the leader.

An arch of unusual form, following the curve of an ogee.

(obsolete, idiomatic) To be defeated in a contest.

plural of bell-ringer

(architecture) The floor of a belfry, made to serve as a roof to the rooms below.

Alternative form of bell-gable

A kind of bell-shaped stench trap.

A kind of conductor's punch which rings a bell when used.

(architecture) A small or subsidiary construction, frequently corbelled out from the walls of a structure, and used to contain and support one or more bells.

A chord played as a sequence of single notes on multiple instruments (of the same or different kinds), sustained so that the chord can be heard.