unbell

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English

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Etymology

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un- +‎ bell

Verb

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unbell (third-person singular simple present unbells, present participle unbelling, simple past and past participle unbelled)

  1. (transitive) To remove a bell from.
    • 1983, Laurence Gonzales, El Vago, page 56:
      I was sent to unbell the lead mare, who gave no alarm as I crept among the woolly gray and brown animals through the mule smell and grass smell and the sound of fluttering lips and dropping manure. I removed the bell from the mare []

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