handbell

English

Etymology

From Middle English handbelle, hande belle, from Old English handbelle (“handbell”), equivalent to hand +‎ bell.

Noun

handbell (plural handbells)

(music) A small bell designed to be rung by hand.
- 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 58:
  The bell sounded. It was a hand-bell, rung by a boy in the next class-room.

Translations

small bell rung by hand

Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: käsikello (fi)
French: cloche à main
German: Handglocke (de) f
Polish: dzwonek z rączką m
Spanish: campanilla (es) f

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