larum-bell
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Noun[edit]
larum-bell (plural larum-bells)
- (obsolete) An alarm-bell.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- His larumbell might lowd and wide be hard, / When cause requird, but neuer out of time; / Early and late it rong, at euening and at prime.