Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A ringing of a set of bells, especially a change or set of changes rung on bells.
- noun A set of bells tuned to each other; a chime.
- noun A loud burst of noise.
- intransitive verb To sound in a peal; ring.
- intransitive verb To cause to peal.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To sound loudly; resound: as, the pealing organ.
- To assail with noise.
- To utter loudly and sonorously; cause to ring or sound; celebrate.
- To stir or agitate.
- noun A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts of a multitude, etc.
- noun A set of bells tuned to one another; a chime or carillon; a ring.
- noun A musical phrase or figure played on a set of bells, properly a scale or part of a scale played up or down, but also applied to any melodic figure; a change.
- An obsolete variant of
pile . - noun A name used in England for different species of the genus Salmo, as S. salar, the salmon, or S. cambricus, a trout found in England, Ireland, and Norway. The latter is also called
sewin . - noun Appeal; plaint; accusation.
- To appeal.
- noun See
peel .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.), Prov. Eng. A small salmon; a grilse; a sewin.
- intransitive verb obsolete To appeal.
- noun A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, of a multitude, etc.
- noun A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale; also, the changes rung on a set of bells.
- noun See under
Ring . - transitive verb To utter or give forth loudly; to cause to give out loud sounds; to noise abroad.
- transitive verb To assail with noise or loud sounds.
- transitive verb Prov. Eng. To pour out.
- intransitive verb To utter or give out loud sounds.
- intransitive verb To resound; to echo.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, laughter, of a
multitude , etc. - verb intransitive To sound with a peal or peals.
- verb transitive To
utter orsound loudly. - verb transitive To
assail withnoise . - verb UK, dialect To pour out.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells)
- verb ring recurrently
- verb sound loudly and sonorously
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The church bells will once again peal, now with especially joyous fervor.
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The church bells will once again peal, now with especially joyous fervor.
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A few seconds afterwards, a deafening watery sound came up with awful peal from the spot where they had disappeared.
III.4 1826
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Come, there goes another peal, that is to order the porter to go and inform the municipality that the dead-doctor is to come here and view a corpse.
Les Miserables 2008
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If we boldly lift up our voices in the ancient war-cry, and let that word peal forth from us, and flash the light of holy lives on
Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII Alexander Maclaren 1868
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Come, there goes another peal, that is to order the porter to go and inform the municipality that the dead-doctor is to come here and view a corpse.
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Come, there goes another peal, that is to order the porter to go and inform the municipality that the dead-doctor is to come here and view a corpse.
Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843
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Together, the entire collection of cathedral bells, known as a peal, weighs 36,806 pounds, according to church records.
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Together, the entire collection of cathedral bells, known as a peal, weighs 36,806 pounds, according to church records.
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To the firmnefs of the lords in fupport of their own judicature, we owe the prcfervation of that right of ap - peal, which is fo main a prop to the fecurity and independence of all private property.
Political letters written in March and April M.DCC.LXXXIV. 1785
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