bells

/bɛlz/ · noun

Meaning

A percussive instrument made of metal or other hard material, typically but not always in the shape of an inverted cup with a flared rim, which resonates when struck.
The sounding of a bell as a signal.
A telephone call.
A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.
The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
Any of a series of strokes on a bell (or similar), struck every half hour to indicate the time (within a four hour watch)
To attach a bell to.
To shape so that it flares out like a bell.
To telephone.
To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.
The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.
To bellow or roar.
To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth.
Ship's bells; the strokes on a ship's bell, every half hour, to mark the passage of time.
Short for bell-bottoms.

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