lowbell

English

Etymology

From low +‎ bell. See low (“a flame”).

Noun

lowbell (plural lowbells)

1. A bell used in fowling at night, to frighten birds, and, with a sudden light, to make them fly into a net.
   • c. 1700-1708, William King, Art of Love

     The fowler's lowbell robs the lark of sleep.

2. A bell to be hung on the neck of a sheep.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “lowbell”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)