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Definition of Fire bell
1. Noun. A bell rung to give a fire alarm.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fire Bell
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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