telephone-bell

English

Noun

telephone-bell (plural telephone-bells)

  1. A small bell, installed in a telephone, which rings to announce incoming calls.
    • 1913, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Poison Belt‎:
      "Halloa! There's that telephone-bell again." From time to time during and after lunch the high, insistent ring had summoned the Professor.
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