bell-pull

See also: bellpull

English

Two bell-pulls next to front door

bell +‎ pull

bell-pull (plural bell-pulls)

A rope that rings a bell.
A handle attached to a rope that rings a bell.
- 1886, Thomas Hardy, chapter 7, in The Mayor of Casterbridge‎:
  While she was doing this the wood partition in the centre of the house thrilled to its centre with the tugging of a bell-pull upstairs. A bell below tinkled a note that was feebler in sound than the twanging of wires and cranks that had produced it.
- 1967, Sleigh, Barbara, Jessamy, 1993 edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 11:
  Jessamy tugged the scrolled iron bell-pull which hung down on one side of the gate. Somewhere behind, she could hear an answering jangle.
The tail of a fox
- 1863, Farmer, Ned, Ned Farmer's Scrap Book, 3 edition, page 91:
  The "bell-pull," as trophy, is kept to preserve,
  And the hounds eat the fox they so richly deserve.

rope that rings a bell