larum-bell en · NOUN
Meanings
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(obsolete) An alarm-bell.
His larumbell might lowd and wide be hard, / When cause requird, but neuer out of time; / Early and late it rong, at euening and at prime.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| larum-bells | Number=Plur | lexicographic |