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lowbells

lowbells is the plural of lowbell.

Meaning of lowbell

Noun

lowbell (plural lowbells)

  1. A bell used in fowling at night, to frighten birds, and, with a sudden light, to make them fly into a net.
    • The fowler's lowbell robs the lark of sleep.c. 1700-1708, William King, Art of Love
  2. (obsolete) A bell to be hung on the neck of a sheep or cow.
    • […] take the lowbell […]; toll this bell just as a weather sheep does, while he is feeding in pasture ground […]1831, Thomas Burgeland Johnson, The Sportsman's Cyclopedia, page 527

Questions about lowbells

What is lowbells the plural of?
Lowbells is the plural of lowbell.

Words near lowbells in the dictionary

  1. lowballers
  2. lowballing
  3. lowballs
  4. lowbat
  5. lowbell
  6. lowbells
  7. lowbie
  8. lowbies
  9. lowborn
  10. lowboy
  11. lowboys

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