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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A rope for ringing a bell.
  • noun A bell-cord.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun nautical A short length of rope, spliced to the eye of the clapper of a ship's bell and by which it is struck

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