English Dictionary

peal

/piːl/

noun

A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, laughter, of a multitude, etc. / (collective) A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale.

I heard a peal of thunder during the storm.

意味（1）

A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, laughter, of a multitude, etc.

Whether thoſe peales of praiſe be his or no.

意味（2）

(collective) A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale.

Ingulphus, the chronicler of Croyland Abbey, mentions that a peal of seven bells was put up there in the tenth century, and that there was not such a harmonious peal in the whole of England; which implies that rings of bells were then common.

意味（3）

The changes rung on a set of bells; in the strict sense a full peal of at least 5040 changes.