handbell

English

Etymology

From Middle English handbelle, hande belle, from Old English handbelle (“handbell”). By surface analysis, hand +‎ bell.

Noun

handbell (plural handbells)

1. (music) A small bell designed to be rung by hand.
   • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 58:

     The bell sounded. It was a hand-bell, rung by a boy in the next class-room.

Translations

small bell rung by hand

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: käsikello (fi)
• French: cloche à main
• German: Handglocke (de) f
• Polish: dzwonek z rączką m
• Spanish: campanilla (es) f