Meaning of Peal | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, laughter, of a multitude, etc.
3. A small salmon; a grilse; a sewin.
4. A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale.
   collective
5. The changes rung on a set of bells; in the strict sense a full peal of at least 5040 changes.

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Examples

“Whether thoſe peales of praiſe be his or no.”

“a fair peal of artillery”

“and the deep thunder, peal on peal, afar”

“Mrs. Green burst out into one of those peals so peculiarly British.”

“And, falling on a bench, he laughed until the tears ran down his cheeks, I could not help joining; and we laughed together, peal after peal[…]”

“And she has half a mind to weep again now, for Jack Brotherhood, as the front doorbell sounds through the house like a bugle call, three short peals as ever.”

“Ingulphus, the chronicler of Croyland Abbey, mentions that a peal of seven bells was put up there in the tenth century, and that there was not such a harmonious peal in the whole of England; which implies that rings of bells were then common.”

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