undern-bell
noun1
Dated, Historical, Obsolete A bell rung to mark the undern-song.
- At Stamford the signal for the commencement of the corn market was, in the reign of Edward IV, the ringing of the Undernone or Undern bell.1888, Thomas North, William Beresford, English Bells and Bell Lore: A Book on Bells, page 187:
- When they rang the undern-bell, he was in London and not yet ready; and yet he won to Canterbury long ere evensong, riding fifty miles.1908, Edith Rickert, Early English Romances in Verse, page 74: