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Bell ringer

noun

A person who rings church bells (as for summoning the congregation). Synonyms: ringer, toller.

Someone who plays musical handbells.

Something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal. Synonyms: bull's eye, home run, mark. "Scored a bull's eye" , "Hit the mark" , "The president's speech was a home run"

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"Bell ringer" Quotes from Famous Books

... a certain famous bell ringer was engaged by the authorities to play the bells from the clavecin. This is a sort of keyboard with pedals played by hand and foot, fashioned like a rude piano. The work is very hard, one would think, but I have heard some remarkable results from it. In former times the office of "carilloneur" ...

— Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders • George Wharton Edwards

... bell for Vespers, she waited by the bell ringer to see that Gadbeau came into the church. He took his place among the men, and then Ruth dropped quietly into a pew near the door. When the people rose to sing the Tantum Ergo, she saw Gadbeau slip unnoticed out of the church. She waited tensely until the singing ...

— The Shepherd of the North • Richard Aumerle Maher

Words linked to "Bell ringer" : player, success, mark, trope, figure, figure of speech, signaler, ringer, home run, image, signaller, instrumentalist, bull's eye, toller, musician