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handbell

noun

handbell

noun

Etymology From Middle English handbelle, hande belle, from Old English handbelle (“handbell”). By surface analysis, hand + bell.

1

Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music A small bell designed to be rung by hand.

  • The bell sounded. It was a hand-bell, rung by a boy in the next class-room.1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 58:

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