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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The continuation upward of a portion of a wall terminated by a small gable, and pierced to receive one or more bells. Such a feature sometimes surmounts the apex of a church-gable.
  • noun Any gable when the wall composing it is pierced for bells.

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  • noun an extension of a gable that serves as a bell cote

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