joy-bell

See also: joy bell

English

Alternative forms
  • joy bell

Noun

joy-bell (plural joy-bells)

  1. A church bell.
    • 1892, John Talbot Smith, Saranac: A Story of Lake Champlain, page 279:
      The carriages rolled away to the ringing of a joy bell in the church tower, as was proper at a baptism.
    • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 17:
      "That bloody Jock Keir with the money rattling in his pocket. Tack wallah's joy-bells."
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