bell-mouthed

English

Adjective

bell-mouthed (not comparable)

1. Expanding at the mouth or opening; flared.

   a bell-mouthed gun

   • 1819–1824, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London, (please specify |canto=I to XVII):

     His bell-mouth'd goblet makes me feel quite Danish
     Or Dutch with thirst

   • 1829, John Francis Davis, The Fortunate Union, page 143:

     He perceived it to be a drawing, by some first-rate artist, of the bell-mouthed flower Calycanthus, extremely rich and elaborate, and truly worthy of its imperial destination.

   • 1895, Emerson Hough, The Singing Mouse Stories, page 175:

     I could hear again the rifle's thin report, could note the whisper of the secret-loving paddle, the slipping of the snow-shoe on the snow, the clatter of the hoofs of horses, the baying of the bell-mouthed hounds.

   • 1986, Department of the Army, Operrator's Organizational, Direct Support and General Support Maintenance Manual For Truck, Firefightng, Dry Chemical AFFF, page 2450:

     Brake linings on a bell-mouthed brake drum will make contact only on the inner surface of the drum.

   • 2009, Louis Begley, Anka Muhlstein, Venice for Lovers:

     On a table stood a full carafe — one of those bell-mouthed Italian carafes, flanked by a black bottle.