peal

peal
Synonyms and related words:
awake the dead, bay, beep, bell, blare, blast, blast the ear, blat, blow, blow the horn, bong, boom, booming, bray, bugle, cannonade, carillon, change ringing, chime, chiming, chink, clamor, clang, clanging, clangor, clank, clanking, clap, clarion, clink, crash, crescendo, deafen, din, ding, ding-a-ling, dingdong, dinging, dingle, dong, donging, fanfare, fill the air, flourish of trumpets, gong, growl, grumble, honk, jangle, jingle, jingle-jangle, jinglejangle, jingling, knell, knelling, peal ringing, pealing, pipe, rattle the windows, rend the air, rend the ears, resonate, resound, reverberate, reverberation, ring, ring changes, ringing, rise, roar, rock the sky, roll, rumble, shriek, sound, sound a knell, sound a tattoo, sound taps, split the eardrums, split the ears, squeal, startle the echoes, stun, surge, swell, tantara, tantarara, taps, tarantara, tattoo, thunder, ting, ting-a-ling, tingle, tingling, tink, tinkle, tinkling, tinnitus, tintinnabulate, toll, tolling, toot, tootle, trumpet, trumpet blast, trumpet call, tweedle, whistle, wind

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  • Peal — Peal, n. [An abbrev. of F. appel a call, appeal, ruffle of a drum, fr. appeller to call, L. appellare. See {Appeal}.] 1. A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, of a multitude, etc. A fair peal of… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Peal — Peal, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Pealed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pealing}.] 1. To utter or give out loud sounds. [1913 Webster] There let the pealing organ blow. Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. To resound; to echo. [1913 Webster] And the whole air pealed With the… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Peal — Peal, v. t. 1. To utter or give forth loudly; to cause to give out loud sounds; to noise abroad. [1913 Webster] The warrior s name, Though pealed and chimed on all the tongues of fame. J. Barlow. [1913 Webster] 2. To assail with noise or loud… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Peal — Peal, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zo[ o]l.) A small salmon; a grilse; a sewin. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Peal — Peal, v. i. To appeal. [Obs.] Spencer. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • peal — [n] chime, clang blast, carillon, clamor, clap, crash, resounding, reverberation, ring, ringing, roar, rumble, sound, thunder, tintinnabulation*; concept 595 peal [v] chime, clang bell, bong, crack, crash, knell, resonate, resound, reverberate,… …   New thesaurus

  • peal — ► NOUN 1) a loud or prolonged ringing of a bell or bells. 2) a loud repeated or reverberating sound of thunder or laughter. 3) a set of bells. ► VERB ▪ ring or resound in a peal. ORIGIN shortening of APPEAL(Cf. ↑appeal …   English terms dictionary

  • peal — [pēl] n. [ME pele, aphetic for apele,APPEAL] 1. the loud ringing of a bell or set of bells 2. a) a set of tuned bells; chimes; carillon b) the ringing of changes on such a set of bells 3. any loud, prolonged sound, as of gunfire, thunder,… …   English World dictionary

  • peal — (n.) late 14c., generally considered a shortened form of APPEAL (Cf. appeal), with the notion of a bell that summons people to church. This is not entirely convincing, but no better theory has been put forth. Extended sense of loud ringing of… …   Etymology dictionary

  • peal — s. m. 1. Escarpim. 2.  [Portugal: Trás os Montes] Presilha que liga à planta do pé a meia que só cobre a perna desde o joelho ao tornozelo …   Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa

  • peal — sustantivo masculino 1. Uso/registro: restringido. Parte de la media que cubre el pie. 2. Uso/registro: restringido. Media sin pie que se sujeta a éste con una tira. 3. Origen …   Diccionario Salamanca de la Lengua Española

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