LOWBELL

n. v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A bell used in fowling at night, to frighten birds, and, with a sudden light, to make them fly into a net. The fowler's lowbell robs the lark of sleep. King.

2.
n.

A bell to be hung on the neck of a sheep. A lowbell hung about a sheep's . . . neck. Howell.

3.
v.

To frighten, as with a lowbell.


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