Meanings
nounlarum-bell (plural larum-bells)
plural larum-bells
- obsoleteAn alarm-bell.
His larumbell might lowd and wide be hard, / When cause requird, but neuer out of time; / Early and late it rong, at euening and at prime.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
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