bellcot

Noun

1. Alternative spelling of bell cot.
   • The belfry, which rises from the eastern gable of the nave, is peculiarly unsuited to its style and position, being of that combination of bellcot (for three bells in two stories) and little spire, which is only...
   • They rode out through the north end of the town and they halted before an adobe building with a corrugated tin roof and an empty mud bellcot above it. - 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 161:
   • The exterior is simple, not to say severe, a crazy wooden bellcot above the western gable alone relieving the skyline of the solid old stone-tiled roof, while wooden shutters, all awry, obscure the ancient windows. -...