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Definition of Shop bell
1. Noun. A bell attached to the door of a small shop; warns the proprietor that a customer has entered the shop.
Generic synonyms: Bell
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shop Bell
Literary usage of Shop bell
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Workshop Receipts by Ernest Spon, Charles George Warnford Lock, Robert Haldane (1889)
"Before leaving the shop, raise the lever с so as to bring the shop bell into the
circuit, and when returning to the house you can complete the circuit, ..."
2. The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1913)
"Yes, our shop-bell," said Hepzibah, a certain nat- ural dignity, mingled with
deep emotion, now asserting itself in her manner. " For you must know, ..."