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ˈprayer-bell
A bell rung to call a household, school, or body of worshippers, to prayer.
a1550Freiris of Berwik 76 in Dunbar's Poems (S.T.S.) 287 With that thay hard the prayer bell Off thair awin abbay. 1682N. O. Boileau's Lutrin i. 34 They could smell The Kitchin Steams, though Deaf to th' Prayer-bell. 1846–8E. M. Sewell Laneton Parsonage xxxii. (1858) 339 The prayer bell had only just rung when I came down. 1877A. B. Edwards Up Nile xii. 327 Echoing to the measured chime of the prayer-bell at morn and even. |