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The bell rung as a call to prayer during the Angelus service.
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A bell-shaped extension at the end of a pipe.
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Anything shaped like a bugle, round or conical and having a bell on one end.
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The study of bells and their casting, tuning, and ringing.
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(music) A method of ringing nine bells in four pairs with a ninth tenor bell.
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(campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
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(music) 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.
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To announce or herald (something) using a clarion (noun sense 1).
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(campanology, plural only) bell changes rung on five bells
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A small, hollow, spherical metal bell with a narrow slit opening or small holes, containing a loose ball or rod as a clapper, which is attached to a horse's harness as a signal, or (music) used as a musical instrument.
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(obsolete) A bell used in hunting birds at night, in connection with a light, to frighten them into a net.
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(campanology) Changes rung on six bells.
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(collective) A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale.
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(engineering) The repeated striking of an object to break or shape it, as in percussion drilling.
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(music) A set of large bells of English origin, played by means of a wheel that moves each bell in a nearly 360-degree arc.
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(campanology) Bell changes rung on ten bells.
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A small bell or set of bells which are rung at the elevation in Mass.
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A tufted woollen part of a bellrope, used to provide grip when ringing a bell.
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An instrument for demonstrating the laws of beats and combination tones.
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One of a set of small bells traditionally attached to a sledge that ring when the sledge is in motion; a sleighbell.
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(uncommon) Of or related to bell-ringing.
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A small clinking bell, particularly (historical) a small bell used to call monks to certain tasks.
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A large, deep-toned bell, or a particularly notable example of one.
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(bell-ringing) A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
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The highest tuned in a ring of bells.
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(campanology) bell changes rung on seven bells
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The bell that summons worshipers to vespers; the vesper-bell
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Playing a wind instrument, possibly badly.
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