- a loud, prolonged ringing of bells.
- a set of bells tuned to one another.
- a series of changes rung on a set of bells.
- any loud, sustained sound or series of sounds, as of cannon, thunder, applause, or laughter.
- to sound loudly and sonorously: to peal the bells of a tower.
- to assail with loud sounds.
- to sound forth in a peal; resound.
- a loud prolonged usually reverberating sound, as of bells, thunder, or laughter
- a series of changes rung in accordance with specific rules, consisting of not fewer than 5000 permutations in a ring of eight bells
- the set of bells in a belfry
- to sound with a peal or peals
- to give forth loudly and sonorously
- to ring (bells) in peals
- a dialect name for a grilse or a young sea trout
