undern-bell

noun

Definitions

  1. A bell rung to mark the undern-song.

    • At Stamford the signal for the commencement of the corn market was, in the reign of Edward IV, the ringing of the Undernone or Undern bell.
    • When they rang the undern-bell, he was in London and not yet ready; and yet he won to Canterbury long ere evensong, riding fifty miles.

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