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noun

Peal n. (Zool.) A small salmon; a grilse; a sewin. (Prov. Eng.)

Peal n.

A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, of a multitude, etc. "A fair peal of artillery." "Whether those peals of praise be his or no." "And a deep thunder, peal on peal, afar."

A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale; also, the changes rung on a set of bells.

To ring a peal. See under Ring.

verb

Peal v. t.

To utter or give forth loudly; to cause to give out loud sounds; to noise abroad. "The warrior's name, Though pealed and chimed on all the tongues of fame."

To assail with noise or loud sounds. "Nor was his ear less pealed."

To pour out. (Prov. Eng.)

Peal v. i. To appeal. (Obs.)

Peal v. i. (past & past part. pealed; pres. part. pealing)

To utter or give out loud sounds. "There let the pealing organ blow."

To resound; to echo. "And the whole air pealed With the cheers of our men."

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Etymology of 'Peal'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Peal" Quotes from Famous Books

... threw his right hand high above his head and his voice boomed over the crowd in a peal of command. The effect was electrical. A painful hush followed. The swaying mass stood rooted in their tracks by the tones of authority his first ...

— The Root of Evil • Thomas Dixon

... he raised his rifle, and drew trigger, there was a sharp pat from the top of the wall above the heads of the blacks, and the report raised a peal of echoes from the surrounding ruins. So startling were the sounds ...

— Dead Man's Land - Being the Voyage to Zimbambangwe of certain and uncertain • George Manville Fenn

... not know whether this means—the peal rung without regard to tune or time—or—the single bell so handled that the tongue checks and jars the vibration. In some country places, I understand, they go about ringing a ...

— The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark - A Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623 • George MacDonald

... beauty, of thy body an oak to defy the elements, of thy blood a wave breaking in slumbrous thunder upon a beach of gold, of thy breath the jasmine's perfume, of thy restless spirit the levin brand that crashes in thunder peal above the storm. Why press the cruel thorn into thy heart, the iron into thy soul? Thus do I clasp thee to a bosom ever true, and shield thee from the slings and arrows of the world. Thy hot heart beats faint and ...

— Volume 1 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann

... throbbed quickly within him, as he stood irresolute on the spot he had occupied since the first peal of thunder had struck upon his ear. Were the light and the man—one seen but for an instant, the other still perceptible—mere phantoms of his erring sight, dazzled by the quick recurrence of atmospheric changes through which it had acted? Or did he indubitably behold a human form, and had he ...

— Antonina • Wilkie Collins

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