different between bellower vs belltower

English

Etymology

bellow +? -er

Noun

bellower (plural bellowers)

1. One who bellows.
   • c. 1624, George Chapman (translator), “A Hymne to Hermes” in The Crowne of all Homers workes Batrachomyomachia or the battaile of frogs and mise. His hymn’s - and - epigrams, London, p. 56,^[2]

     And these [oxen] the wittie-borne

     (Argicides,) set serious spie vpon:

     Seuering from all the rest; and setting gone

     Full fiftie of the violent Bellowers.

   • 1794, Robert Jephson, Roman Portraits, London: G.G. and J. Robinson, lines 558-561, p. 38,^[3]

     Besides, the scent of mischief lur’d along

     (The scum of towns) a numerous noisy throng;

     Bellowers, unfit to govern or obey,

     Who little heed the cause, but love the fray;

   • 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, Chapter 41,^[4]

     ‘A—hem!’ cried the same voice; and that, not in the tone of an ordinary clearing of the throat, but in a kind of bellow, which woke up all the echoes in the neighbourhood, and was prolonged to an extent which must have made the unseen bellower quite black in the face.

   • 2016, Brad Wheeler, “Roger Waters, The Who get political at Desert Trip,” The Globe and Mail, 10 October, 2016,^[5]

     Mic-swinging lead bellower Roger Daltrey stuck to singing, while sometime-vocalist Pete Townshend proved his guitar game was as strong as his aptitude and willingness for pithy, insolent commentary.

2. (obsolete, colloquial) A town crier.

References

Anagrams

• borewell, rebellow, wellbore

English

Noun

belltower (plural belltowers)

1. Alternative spelling of bell tower