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Peal meaning in English

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Peal

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Noun

1. peal, pealing, roll, rolling

a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells)

Verb

2. peal

ring recurrently

Example Sentences:
'bells were pealing'

3. peal, ring

sound loudly and sonorously

Example Sentences:
'the bells rang'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Peal

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noun
1. 
a loud prolonged usually reverberating sound, as of bells, thunder, or laughter
2. bell-ringing
a series of changes rung in accordance with specific rules, consisting of not fewer than 5000 permutations in a ring of eight bells
3. (not in technical usage)
the set of bells in a belfry
verb
4. (intransitive)
to sound with a peal or peals
5. (transitive)
to give forth loudly and sonorously
6. (transitive)
to ring (bells) in peals
noun
a dialect name for a grilse or a young sea trout

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Peal

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noun
1. 
the loud ringing of a bell or set of bells
2. 
a. 
a set of tuned bells; chimes; carillon
b. 
the ringing of changes on such a set of bells
3. 
any loud, prolonged sound, as of gunfire, thunder, laughter, etc.
verb intransitive, verb transitive
4. 
to sound in a peal; resound; ring

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Peal

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n.
1. A ringing of a set of bells, especially a change or set of changes rung on bells.
2. A set of bells tuned to each other; a chime.
3. A loud burst of noise: peals of laughter.
v. pealed, peal·ing, peals
v.intr.
To sound in a peal; ring.
v.tr.
To cause to peal.

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