bell-pull

plural bell-pulls

1. A rope that rings a bell.
2. A handle attached to a rope that rings a bell.

   Jessamy tugged the scrolled iron bell-pull which hung down on one side of the gate. Somewhere behind, she could hear an answering jangle.

   1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 11

   1 more example

   While she was doing this the wood partition in the centre of the house thrilled to its centre with the tugging of a bell-pull upstairs. A bell below tinkled a note that was feebler in sound than the twanging of wires and cranks that had produced it.

   1886, Thomas Hardy, chapter 7, in The Mayor of Casterbridge

3. The tail of a fox

   The "bell-pull," as trophy, is kept to preserve, And the hounds eat the fox they so richly deserve.

   1863, Ned Farmer, Ned Farmer's Scrap Book, 3rd edition, page 91