Meaning of lowbell | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A bell used in fowling at night, to frighten birds, and, with a sudden light, to make them fly into a net.
2. A bell to be hung on the neck of a sheep or cow.
   obsolete

Examples

“c. 1700-1708, William King, Art of Love The fowler's lowbell robs the lark of sleep.”

“[…] take the lowbell […]; toll this bell just as a weather sheep does, while he is feeding in pasture ground […]”

“[…] pipes and horns were sounded, together with lowbells [cow- or sheep-bell] and other smaller bells which the company had amongst them […]”

CEFR level