Meaning of bell rope | Babel Free

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1. A short length of rope, spliced to the eye of the clapper of a ship's bell and by which it is struck.
2. A long length of rope attached by splicing to a church's bell, by which it is struck, and with a sally for holding it.
3. A rope used to ring a bell serving as an old-fashioned doorbell.
4. A lovelock.
   obsolete, slang

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