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Low-bell v. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1903, rev. 2024. Low-bell v. Now only dial. [f. prec.]

1   † 1.  trans. a. To capture (birds) by the use of a low-bell. b. transf. To scare or bewilder as the lowbeller does birds. Obs.

2 1581.  Lambarde, Eiren., IV. iv. (1588), 444. If any person whatsoever, have taken … any Phesants or Partriches … by lowbelling or tramelling.

3 1642.  Broken Title Episcop. Inher., § 2. A muster of a few Exoticke obsolete Saxon termes to Low-bell his Ignorant Examiner.

4 1651.  R. Child, in Hartlib’s Legacy (1655), 91. Larks … may be taken in snares, or by day-nets, Low-belling, &c.

5 1660.  H. More, Myst. Godl., To Rdr. 23. Weak Christians … are so low-belled by this terror as to be taken up and captivated by the Church of Rome. Ibid., 24. [They] do not low-bell men into their own errour by either uncharitable censurings or bloudy persecutions.

6   2.  dial. To greet with ‘rough music’ (i.e., beating of pots and kettles, blowing of horns, etc.) as an expression of popular disapprobation.

7   Current in Northants, Warwickshire, and Worcestershire: see E. D. D.

8   Hence Lowbeller, † (a) one who uses a lowbell in fowling (obs.); (b) dial. one who joins in ‘lowbelling’ an unpopular person.

9 1581.  Act 23 Eliz., c. 10 § 6. This acte shal not … extende to Lowbellers, Tramellers or others, which shall vnwillingly happen to take any Partridges.

10 1706.  Phillips (ed. Kersey), Low-beller, one that goes a Fowling with a Light and a Bell.

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