pealing

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiːlɪŋ/

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• Homophone: peeling

pealing

1. present participle and gerund of peal

pealing (plural pealings)

1. The sound made by bells as they peal.
   • 1895, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Stark Munro Letters:

     Then when the words were said, and man's form had tried to sanctify that which was already divine, we walked amid the pealings of the “Wedding March” into the vestry […]

• P'eng-lai, Penglai, apeling, leaping, pleaing