DUMB-BELLS

Domain	Definition
Literature	Dumb-bells A corruption of Dumpels or Dumples, the same word as Dumplings, and meaning heavy (weights). (German and Danish, dumm heavy, dull, insipid; dumpling, a heavy, insipid pudding; dumps, heavy, stupid moroseness.) (See Dump.) Dumb-bells In New College, Oxford, there still is an apparatus for developing the muscles similar to that which sets church-bells in motion. It consists of a fly-wheel with a weight attached, and the gymnast is carried by it up and down to bring his muscles into play. The present apparatus was substituted for it, and answers a similar purpose, though the name is greatly obscured. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Usage Frequency: DUMB-BELLS

"DUMB-BELLS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 96.00% of the time. "DUMB-BELLS" is used about 25 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Anagrams: DUMB-BELLS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: dumbbells.
	Words within the letters "b-b-d-e-l-l-m-s-u"
	-1 letter: dumbbell.
	-2 letters: bedumbs, bulbels, bumbled, bumbles, slubbed.
	-3 letters: bedumb, blumed, blumes, bulbed, bulbel, bulled, bumble, mulled, subbed, subdeb, umbels, umbles.
	-4 letters: bells, blebs, blubs, blued, blues, blume, bulbs, bulls, bused, dells, duels, dulls, dulse, dumbs, leuds, lubed, lubes, ludes, melds, mells, muled, mules, mulls, mused, sebum, sedum, slued, smell, umbel.
	-5 letters: beds, bedu, bell, bels.
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