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Bell-mouthed   Listen
adjective
Bell-mouthed  adj.  Expanding at the mouth; as, a bell-mouthed gun.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Bell-mouthed" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the shutters. On the moldings of the Venetian blinds, a few stray mason bees build their group of cells; inside the outer shutters, left ajar, a Eumenes [a mason wasp] constructs her little earthen dome, surmounted by a short, bell-mouthed neck. The common wasp and the Polistes [a solitary wasp] are my dinner guests: they visit my table to see if the grapes served are as ripe ...
— The Life of the Fly - With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of Autobiography • J. Henri Fabre

... and Peterkin replied by laying down a huge bell-mouthed blunderbuss, and divesting himself of a pair of enormous horse-pistols with which he had purposed to overawe the natives! We then jumped into our ...
— The Coral Island - A Tale Of The Pacific Ocean • R. M. Ballantyne



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