It works by the bell at the top of the castle and rings and rings and rings.......
A belfry is an old word for what we typically call a bell tower. Both amount to the same thing: a tower or other location where you would find the building's bells. The most common way one hears the word is the idiom "Bats in the Belfry", which is an old idiom to indicate one's head is rather a mess and therefore the person is implied to be crazy (picture this; the bells start ringing, scaring the bats and causing them to panic; that bell tower is going to be quite hectic for a while).
They used wet animal hides on the front and both sides of the Belfry (or siege tower) to stop it from catching on fire. Hope this helps;-)
Belfry Witches ended on 2000-11-01.
As a general rule they're just called siege towers but in the Middle Ages they were known as belfry. You are talking about the big rectangular towers on four wheels that you roll up to the city walls, right?
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Belfry
A bell tower is a tower in which a bell or set of bells is hung - especially a belfry.
The Steeple. The belfry is where the bells are housed.
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It houses the bell that is used to summon the neighborhood/village.
The word is belfry.
No, a belfry is not the same as a siege tower. A belfry is a structure that houses bells, typically found in churches or clock towers. In contrast, a siege tower is a mobile structure used in warfare to allow attackers to reach the walls of a fortified place, providing a platform for soldiers to assault the defenses. While both are architectural constructs, they serve very different purposes.
Usually a tower in a church with bell(s) in. It was/is used to inform people of events like weddings.
A belfry is an old word for what we typically call a bell tower. Both amount to the same thing: a tower or other location where you would find the building's bells. The most common way one hears the word is the idiom "Bats in the Belfry", which is an old idiom to indicate one's head is rather a mess and therefore the person is implied to be crazy (picture this; the bells start ringing, scaring the bats and causing them to panic; that bell tower is going to be quite hectic for a while).
The main structure is a bell tower. Where the bells are housed at the very top of the bell tower is known as the belfry.
the belfry of the Clock Tower at the Palace of Westminster
I believe the cliche you are referring to is "bats in the belfry." A belfry is a bell tower, commonly located on the topmost part of buildings, namely churches. Bats commonly fly around them in their erratic fashion. To say one has "bats in his belfry" is to say he is a bit batty, or considered to be somewhat crazy.