Cryptic crossword clue
Half turn next to church and the sound of bells 6

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word CHIMES

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What does CHIMES mean?

1. A musical instrument producing a sound when struck, similar to a bell (e.g. a tubular metal bar) or actually a bell. Often used in the plural to refer to the set: the chimes.
2. An individual ringing component of such a set.
3. A small bell or other ringing or tone-making device as a component of some other device.
4. The sound of such an instrument or device.
5. A small hammer or other device used to strike a bell.

1. To make the sound of a chime.
2. To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
3. To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
4. To agree; to correspond.
5. To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.

1. The top of a ridge.
2. The spine of an animal.
3. A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
4. A sharp angle in the cross section of a hull.
5. A hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.
6. The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
7. The back of the blade on a scythe.

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