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Examples of peal
peal
Performing the peal for Obama's inauguration has special significance for Bates.
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In village after village, church bells started a continuous peal in the night.
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The usual peal of interjections from National's side of the House soon petered out.
From the nzherald.co.nz
One blinding flash after another came, and peal on peal of deafening thunder.
From the sacbee.com
Peal will design set and sound, and underused veteran Lon Bumgarner directs.
From the charlotteobserver.com
The Dom Tower has an exceptional peal of fourteen ringing bells, weighing 32,000 kg.
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Every visitor wants to give it a good tug, ensuring an almost constant peal of bells.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Peal, specializing in English cashmere, will be moving next year to Grant.
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There is such a tremendous noise from the peal of bells in the tower here.
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- A deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells)
- Ring recurrently; "bells were pealing"
- Ring: sound loudly and sonorously; "the bells rang"
- A peal is the name given to a specific type of performance of change ringing. The precise definition of a peal has changed considerably over the years. ...
- (Peals) The Research Centre was established in 1999 as a partnership between the University of Durham, Newcastle University and the Centre for Life.
- A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, laughter, of a multitude, etc; To sound with a peal or peals
- A group of different-sized bells, usually from two to six, located in a belfry of the Christian church and rung according to the liturgical calendar and on other special occasions. Each bell of the peal swings at its own rate, thus producing an ensemble of disorganized sound. ...
- A true touch of at least 5000 changes. This typically takes around three hours to ring.
- A set of bells, often between five and twelve in number, tuned to a diatonic scale.
