lowbell
nounEtymology From low + bell. See low (“a flame”).
1
A bell used in fowling at night, to frighten birds, and, with a sudden light, to make them fly into a net.
- c. 1700-1708, William King, Art of Love The fowler's lowbell robs the lark of sleep.
2
Obsolete A bell to be hung on the neck of a sheep or cow.
- […] take the lowbell […]; toll this bell just as a weather sheep does, while he is feeding in pasture ground […]1831, Thomas Burgeland Johnson, The Sportsman's Cyclopedia, page 527:
- […] pipes and horns were sounded, together with lowbells [cow- or sheep-bell] and other smaller bells which the company had amongst them […]2009, Newton Key, Robert Bucholz, Sources and Debates in English History, 1485-1714, page 113: