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."