Peal

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  • noun. A ringing of a set of bells, especially a change or set of changes rung on bells.
  • noun. A set of bells tuned to each other; a chime.
  • noun. A loud burst of noise.
  • intransitive verb. To sound in a peal; ring.
  • intransitive verb. To cause to peal.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To sound loudly; resound: as, the pealing organ.
  • To assail with noise.
  • To utter loudly and sonorously; cause to ring or sound; celebrate.
  • To stir or agitate.
  • noun. A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts of a multitude, etc.
  • noun. A set of bells tuned to one another; a chime or carillon; a ring.
  • noun. A musical phrase or figure played on a set of bells, properly a scale or part of a scale played up or down, but also applied to any melodic figure; a change.
  • An obsolete variant of pile.
  • noun. A name used in England for different species of the genus Salmo, as S. salar, the salmon, or S. cambricus, a trout found in England, Ireland, and Norway. The latter is also called sewin.
  • noun. Appeal; plaint; accusation.
  • To appeal.
  • noun. See peel.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A small salmon; a grilse; a sewin.
  • intransitive verb. To appeal.
  • noun. A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, of a multitude, etc.
  • noun. A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale; also, the changes rung on a set of bells.
  • noun. See under Ring.
  • transitive verb. To utter or give forth loudly; to cause to give out loud sounds; to noise abroad.
  • transitive verb. To assail with noise or loud sounds.
  • transitive verb. To pour out.
  • intransitive verb. To utter or give out loud sounds.
  • intransitive verb. To resound; to echo.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, laughter, of a multitude, etc.
  • verb. To sound with a peal or peals.
  • verb. To utter or sound loudly.
  • verb. To assail with noise.
  • verb. To pour out.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells)
  • verb. ring recurrently
  • verb. sound loudly and sonorously
  • Word Usage
    "The church bells will once again peal, now with especially joyous fervor."
    cross-reference
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    ring  sound  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Biel  Brasil  Camille  Cecile  Cele  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bellow  blare  chant  cheer  chime  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    appeal  awake the dead  bay  beep  bell  
    verb-form
    pealed  pealing  peals