bell-ringn.
/ˈbɛlrɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈbɛlˌrɪŋ/ The ringing of a bell, esp. as a signal, warning, etc.; (also) an instance of this.Apparently unattested between the early 13th cent. (in a Middle English recension of Old English material: see quot. OE1) and the 19th cent.
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bell-ringOE
ringingc1300
bell-ringingc1350
knoll1379
toll1452
tollinga1513
jowing1516
round ringinga1661
tintinnabulism1826
clocking1863
clappering1874
tintinnabulation1883
OE Rule St. Benet (Corpus Cambr.) xliii. 67 Sona swa þæt beacn þæs belhrincges [a1225 Winteney belhringes] gehyred bið, þærrihte forlæte æghwylc swa hwæt swa he on handa hæfde, and mid ofste þone tidsang þære godcundan þenunge gesece.
OE Wulfstan Institutes of Polity: De Ecclesiasticis Gradibus (Junius) (1959) 229 And ealswa Crist into þære earce gelaðode, þa þe he þærinne gehealdenne habban wolde, swa man sceall laðian Godes folc mid bellhrincge into Godes huse and hit þærinne mid Godes lofe gehealden.
1820 Farmer's Mag. Aug. 283 At bell-ring for quitting work, they fall into line.
1881 H. N. Shore Flight of Lapwing 102 It was amusing to watch the stream of pigtails flowing through the gate at ‘bellring’.
1905 Northwestern Reporter 102 258/2 The defendant carelessly and negligently started said car without a bell ring from the car's conductor.
1976 B. Armstrong Gloss. TV Terms 84 Spot effect, a brief sound—door closing, bell ring—added during the dub.
2003 T. Kay Valley of Light 43 The bell ring was so faint it could have been something hidden in the air.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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