Editing Change ringing (section)

==English bell-ringing terms==
[[File:Half muffled bell.jpg|thumb|English style full circle bell with clapper half-muffled. A leather muffle is put over one side only of the clapper ball. This gives a loud strike, then a muffled strike alternately.
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* '''Back''' – at or near last place in a change.
* '''Back bells''' – the heavier bells (so tend to limit the speed).
* '''Backstroke''' (or '''Backstroke home''') – The part of a bell's cycle started by pulling on the ''tail end'' (rope end) in the tower, or with the bells raised ''in hand''; also: the position at which the back bells come into ''rounds'' order at backstroke.
* '''Baldrick''' – the leather lined metal strap from which the ''clappers'' used to be hung.
* '''Band''' – a group of ringers for a given set of bells (or for a special purpose, e.g., a "peal band")
* '''Bearings''' – the load-bearing assembly on which the ''headstock'' (and so the whole bell) turns about its [[gudgeon pins]]. Modern hanging means the bell is ''hung'' on ''ball bearings'', but were traditionally ''plain bearings''.
* '''Bob''' – the commonest type of call in most methods<ref>{{cite web|last1=Harrison|first1=John|title=Glossary of ringing terms|url=http://jaharrison.me.uk/Ringing/Glossary/B.html|access-date=26 March 2016}}</ref> or a class of ''plainmethod'' (in which either ''dodging'' takes place or some bells are not just ''hunting'' or ''place making''); also can mean (usually called the "'''Bob place'''") the appropriate point in the method (e.g. a ''lead end'') to modify the sequence of changes.
* '''Bob caller''' – someone who ''calls'' a ''touch'', but does not check the ringing as a ''conductor'' would.
* '''Bristol start''' – starting to raise in peal by adding an extra bell each time.
* '''Bump the stay''' – allow the bell to swing ''over the balance'', out of control, so the ''stay'' pushes the ''slider'' to its limit, stopping the bell.
* '''Cambridge''' – The ''right place'' ''surprise'' ''method'', one of the ''standard eight'', that is often the first learned.
* '''Canons''' – loops cast onto older bells' crowns.
* '''Cinques''' – (pronounced "sinks") methods for working eleven bells (possibly with a twelfth covering) the name deriving from the practice of swapping five pairs of bells.
* '''Clapper''' – the metal (usually cast iron) rod/hammer hung from a pivot below the ''crown'' of the bell, that strikes the ''soundbow'' of the bell when the bell stops moving.
* '''Clocking''' – causing a bell to sound while down by pulling a hammer against it (as a clock would) or by pulling the ''clapper'' against the side of the bell.
* '''Closed leads''' (also called '''cartwheeling''') – handstroke changes follow backstroke changes with no handstroke gap (unlike open leads)
* '''Come round''' – return to rounds to end a ''touch'' (e.g. "come round at ''handstroke''), or produce rounds prematurely.
* '''Cover''' – a bell (e.g. ''tenor'') ringing at the end of every ''row'', while the other bells ring a ''method''.
* '''Delight''' – a ''treble bob'' ''method'' in which an ''internal place'' is made sometimes, but not every time, the ''treble'' is going from one ''dodge'' to another ("''cross sections''").
* '''Dodge''' – Changing direction for one stroke in bell ringing (although strictly a dodge is taking a retrograde step in the middle of a portion of ''hunting''). '''Dodging practice''' is an exercise where two bells exchange places on every stroke, sometimes taught to aid learners change from ''call changes'' to ''plain hunt''.
* '''Double method''' – a ''method'' where the structure is the same if reversed.
* '''Doubles''' – a method with five working bells, possibly with a sixth ''covering''.
* '''Down''' – EITHER: when the bells are hanging with the mouth lowermost position, OR: moving towards the front (as in "hunting down").
* '''Extent''' – a touch where all possible changes are rung exactly once each; the number of such different rows is N [[factorial]], where N is the number of bells.
* '''Firing'''-   From rounds all the bells are rung at once for a few strokes before returning to rounds.  Done at special occasions such as weddings or New Year. 
* '''Fire out''' – to ring haphazardly, either because ringers accidentally try to ring at once, or deliberately for wedding ringing.
* '''Front''' – at or near the start of a row.
* '''Front bells''' – the smaller bells which are rung first in rounds.
* '''Garter hole''' – the hole in the wheel where the rope passes through.
* '''Handstroke''' – the stroke when the sally is gripped. 
* '''Hunt''' – move one place at a time up or down (see [[plain hunt]], treble bob hunt, etc.).
* '''Lead end''' – the change on which the ''treble'' is ''leading'' (ringing first) at its backstroke.
* '''Little Bob''' – a method in which the ''treble'' ''plain hunts'' between ''lead'' and a place short of the last place. 
* '''Line''' – the sequence of places a bell rings in a method, or the diagram describing the method (the convention being that the treble line is shown in red while the others are blue).
* '''Method''' – an agreed/named sequence of changes that forms a ''round block'', See ''plain course''.
* '''Muffling''' For commemorative services such as [[funeral]]s, [[memorial]] services and [[Remembrance Sunday]], the bells are rung ''half-muffled'' with a leather pad on one side of the clapper.  Very rarely ''fully muffled'' with pads both sides.. 
* '''Sally''' – the woollen bulge woven into the rope. It is both an indicator and a help with gripping. 
* '''Slider''' – A device which allows the bell to go over the balance at each end of its swing, but not to over-rotate. 
* '''Stay''' – a device that is attached to the headstock and works in conjunction with the slider.
* '''Tenor''' – the lowest pitched bell in the tower.
* '''Treble''' – the highest-pitched bell in the tower. 
* '''Up''' – EITHER: when the bells are raised to the mouth uppermost position, OR: moving towards the back (as in "hunting up").