larum-bell

English

Noun

larum-bell (plural larum-bells)

1. (obsolete) An alarm-bell.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     His larumbell might lowd and wide be hard, / When cause requird, but neuer out of time; / Early and late it rong, at euening and at prime.