peal
/piːl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.41 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, laughter, of a multitude, etc.
noun
A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale.
Example Sentences
- "Whether thoſe peales of praiſe be his or no."
- "a fair peal of artillery"
- "and the deep thunder, peal on peal, afar"
- "Mrs. Green burst out into one of those peals so peculiarly British."
- "And, falling on a bench, he laughed until the tears ran down his cheeks, I could not help joining; and we laughed together, peal after peal[…]"
- "And she has half a mind to weep again now, for Jack Brotherhood, as the front doorbell sounds through the house like a bugle call, three short peals as ever."