steeplekeeper
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]steeplekeeper (plural steeplekeepers)
- Alternative form of steeple keeper
- 1911 October 21, “The Boy who Broke the Liberty Bell”, in Literary Digest, volume 43, number 17 (whole number 1122), New York: Funk & Wagnalls, →ISSN, page 703:
- We were working away, and the bell had struck, so far as I can recall, about ten or a dozen times, when we noticed a change in the tone. We kept on ringing, tho, but, after a while, the steeplekeeper noticed the difference, too. Surmising that something might be wrong, he told us to stop pulling the rope.