bellman
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bellmen, plural;
/ˈbelmən/,
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bellmen, plural;
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A town crier
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- bellboy: someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels
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- (Bellmen) Men who worked on the conveyor belts or rope haulage signalling system.
- employed as a watchman or town crier or who worked for the post office and collected letters for the mail coach by walking the streets and ringing a bell
- (3) man who summoned condemned prisoners
- bellmen rang bells to announce a death in Elizabethean times
- Fortune is hurrying after you. Questions of importance will be settled amicably among disputants. To see him looking sad some sorrowful event or misfortune may soon follow.
- a Town Crier, a Watchman or a person who collected coach mail by ringing a bell which attracted people’s attention.