bell rope
See also: bellrope
English edit
Noun edit
bell rope (plural bell ropes)
- (nautical) A short length of rope, spliced to the eye of the clapper of a ship's bell and by which it is struck.
- A long length of rope attached by splicing to a church's bell, by which it is struck, and with a sally for holding it.
- A rope used to ring a bell serving as an old-fashioned doorbell.
- (obsolete, slang) A lovelock.
References edit
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary