Meanings
verblose the bell (third-person singular simple present loses the bell, present participle losing the bell, simple past and past participle lost the bell)
present singular third person loses the bell · participle present losing the bell · participle past lost the bell · past lost the bell
- idiomaticobsoleteTo be defeated in a contest.
In single fight he lost the bell.
1600, [Torquato Tasso], “(please specify |book=1 to 20)”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC
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