handbell
English
Etymology
From Middle English handbelle, hande belle, from Old English handbelle (“handbell”), equivalent to hand + bell.
Noun
handbell (plural handbells)
- (music) A small bell designed to be rung by hand.
- 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 58:
- The bell sounded. It was a hand-bell, rung by a boy in the next class-room.
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Translations
small bell rung by hand
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