belling

• Her sword extended, the tip belling out with a hole in the middle before coming to almost touch in a point. —  Ultimate List
• Yes but to go with Roc Tim, who's belling the cat. —  Irish Blogs
• Furthermore, there are signs of additional activity down the ballot, beyond the traditional door-belling in force that legislative candidates rely on in competitive races (or at least they should, if they want to win). —  Sound Politics
• The "belling" of male stags, if I remember rightly, is a challenge, and so I daresay is the roaring of the lion during the breeding season I will just add in reference to your former letter that I fully admit that with birds the fighting of the males co-operates with their charms; and I remember quoting Bartlett that gaudy colouring in the males is almost invariably concomitant with pugnacity. —  Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1
• One could see to read quite ordinary print by that cold, clear light, and in the cities the lamps burnt yellow and wan And everywhere the world was awake that night, and throughout Christendom a sombre murmur hung in the keen air over the country-side like the belling of bees in the heather, and this murmurous tumult grew to a clangour in the cities. —  The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories

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