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Bellpull

noun
1.
A handle or cord that is pulled to ring a doorbell or a servant's bell etc..





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"Bellpull" Quotes from Famous Books



... from making a tournament of "Jack-o'-lanthorns" on the ceiling. His locker in the lobby of the dissecting-room has long since been devoid of apron, sleeves, scalpels, or forceps; but still it is not empty. Its contents are composed of three bellpull-handles, a valuable series of shutter-fastenings, two or three broken pipes, a pewter "go" (which, if everybody had their own, would in all probability belong to Mr. Evans, of Covent Garden Piazza), some scraps of biscuit, and a round knocker, which ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete • Various


Words linked to "Bellpull" :   pull


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