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division bell

noun

division bell

noun
1

Commonwealth A bell rung in or around a parliament to signal a division (vote) to members of the relevant chamber so that they may take part.

  • The division bell was still ringing; peers and diplomatists and strangers were turned out; members came rushing in from library and smoking-room; some desperate cabs just arrived in time to land their passengers in the waiting-room.1845, Benjamin Disraeli, “Chapter 3”, in Sybil, or The Two Nations, Book 4:

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