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peal out en · VERB

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1. (intransitive, of a bell) To ring loudly.
2. (transitive) To cause a bell to ring loudly.
   • and lending their clear and joyous voices to the wild chorus of the vintage-song that their elders were pealing out; 1838, Julia Pardoe, The City of the Sultan and Domestic Manners of the Turks, in 1836, Volume 3, page 310:
   • Was it so irreconcilable, Warwick wondered, as still to peal out the curfew bell, which at nine o'clock at night had clamorously warned all negroes, slave or free, that it was unlawful for them to be abroad after that hour, under penalty of imprisonment or whipping? 1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:

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