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In law, unring the bell is an analogy used to suggest the difficulty of forgetting information once it is known. When discussing jury trials , the phrase is sometimes used to describe the judge's instructions to the jury to ignore inadmissible evidence or statements they have heard.
Within the bell is a clapper that strikes the thickest part of the bell mouth called the soundbow. In English, ringing a set of bells is known as a "ring of bells", and an example of a ring of eight bells is shown mouth upwards in the rest position in the accompanying image.
Historically, a bell would be rung on three occasions around the time of a death. The first was the "passing bell" to warn of impending death, followed by the death knell which was the ringing of a bell immediately after the death, and the last was the "lych bell", or "corpse bell" which was rung at the funeral as the procession approached the church. [1]
She recalled their answers: “One bell means you need another cashier. Two bells means you need someone to find an item. ... “Like anyone at any cash register can ring that bell and say, ‘Hey ...
He was not permitted to ring the bell before sunrise or after sunset. [14] Kirk session records show that in one Ayrshire parish the dead bell ringer was paid at a rate of a penny a mile at first, rising to two pence per mile by 1762. [13] The income from the ringing of the dead bell went to the kirk session and was used to support the poor. [13]
One bell lets our Crew know when to open another register. Two bells mean there are additional questions that need to be answered at the checkout. Three bells call over a manager-type person.
A modern tradition at funerals where there are full circle ring of bells is to use "half-muffles" when sounding one bell as a tolled bell, or to ring all the bells half-muffled in change ringing. Half-muffling means a leather muffle is placed on one side only of the clapper of each bell so that there is a loud "open" strike followed by a ...
A mini ring is a portable ring of bells which demonstrates the English full-circle style of ringing. The public can easily see how it works. The full-circle bell is hung from bearings at the headstock and can be swung through an arc of over 360 degrees using a rope wrapping round a circular bell wheel in alternate directions.