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hawk's bell, hawk-bell
A small spherical bell, for fastening on the leg of a hawk.
[1468in Rogers Agric. & Prices III. 557/2, 2 hawks' bells.] 1483Act 1 Rich. III, c. 12 That no merchaunt Straungier..brynge into this Realme..belles except haukes belles [etc.]. 1486Bk. St. Albans D iij (heading), Of hawkys Bellys..Off spare hawke bellis ther is chooce and lyttill of charge of thaym. 1622Drayton Poly-olb. xx, The trembling fowl that hear the jigging hawk-bells ring. 1777Robertson Hist. Amer. (1778) I. ii. 93 They..received from them hawks-bells, glass beads or other baubles. 1832Westm. Rev. XVI. 132 Beads and hawk-bells. 1835W. Irving Crayon Misc. (1849) 298 Morris-dancers, gaily dressed up with ribands and hawks'-bells. |