undern-bell

noun

A bell rung to mark the undern-song.

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Meanings

noun
  1. datedhistoricalobsoleteA bell rung to mark the undern-song.

    When they rang the undern-bell, he was in London and not yet ready; and yet he won to Canterbury long ere evensong, riding fifty miles.

    1908, Edith Rickert, Early English Romances in Verse, page 74
    1 more example

    At Stamford the signal for the commencement of the corn market was, in the reign of Edward IV, the ringing of the Undernone or Undern bell.

    1888, Thomas North, William Beresford, English Bells and Bell Lore: A Book on Bells, page 187
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