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Ship's bell   /ʃɪps bɛl/   Listen
Ship's bell

noun
1.
(nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship's bell; eight bells signals 4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o'clock, either a.m. or p.m..  Synonym: bell.






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"Ship's bell" Quotes from Famous Books



... compose the band, and, like a lot of monkey-folk rejoicing in rude rhythm, emphasizes the beat by hammering kerosene cans, frying-pans, and all sorts of things metallic or reverberant. Some genius has rigged a line to the clapper of the ship's bell on the forecastle-head and clangs it horribly in the big foo-foo crises, though Bombini can be heard censuring him severely on occasion. And to cap it all, the fog-horn machine pumps in at the oddest moments in imitation of ...
— The Mutiny of the Elsinore • Jack London



Words linked to "Ship's bell" :   seafaring, sailing, unit of time, time unit, navigation



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