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table bells

table bells is the plural of table bell.

Meaning of table bell

Noun

table bell (plural table bells)

  1. (historical) A hand-held bell intended to be rung in a dining room to call for service, but also used to call patients in medical clinics, assistants in offices, etc.
    • It is more awful and alarming, thus to startle silence by a deep-toned summoner, than to be brought back into petty life, by the tinkle of a table-bell.1825, James Boaden, Memoirs of the Life of John Philip Kemble, page 415

Questions about table bells

What is table bells the plural of?
Table bells is the plural of table bell.

Words near table bells in the dictionary

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  2. table beers
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  4. table beets
  5. table bell
  6. table bells
  7. table bird
  8. table birds
  9. table board
  10. table boarder
  11. table boarders

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