telephone-bell

English

Noun

telephone-bell (plural telephone-bells)

1. A small bell, installed in a telephone, which rings to announce incoming calls.
   • 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     "Halloa! There's that telephone-bell again." From time to time during and after lunch the high, insistent ring had summoned the Professor.