Definition of Fire bell

1. Noun. A bell rung to give a fire alarm.

Generic synonyms: Bell

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fire Bell

fire alarm
fire alarm horn
fire alarm horns
fire alarms
fire and brimstone
fire and forget
fire ant
fire ant stings
fire ants
fire at will
fire away
fire axe
fire axes
fire beetle
fire beetles
fire bell (current term)
fire bellied toad
fire blanket
fire blight
fire blights
fire block
fire boss
fire bosses
fire box
fire break
fire breaks
fire breathing
fire brick
fire bricks
fire brigade

Literary usage of Fire bell

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Japanese-English and English-Japanese Dictionary by James Curtis Hepburn (1873)
"An alarm bell, fire-bell. HATSU, n. A numeral used in counting the discharge of guns. Ippatsu, one discharge, or one gun. Ni hatsu suru, to fire two guns. ..."

2. London by Charles Knight (1851)
"When the custom of ringing the curfew-bell at a certain hour in the evening ceased, many towns and large buildings were provided with a fire-bell, ..."

3. Psychology, Descriptive and Explanatory: A Treatise of the Phenomena, Laws by George Trumbull Ladd (1904)
"For example: All sounds which have the complex characteristics of intensity, timbre, direction, = (i + t + d), are sounds of the fire-bell (All S — (i + t + ..."

4. Psychology, Descriptive and Explanatory: A Treatise of the Phenomena, Laws by George Trumbull Ladd (1894)
"For example: All sounds which have the complex characteristics of intensity, timbre, direction, = (i + t + d), are sounds of the fire-bell (All S = (i + t + ..."

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