Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for LOW'BELL
LOW'BELL, n. [Sw. låge, flame; låga, to flame; Sax. læg, leg, lig, id.; Scot. lowe; G. loke.]
A kind of fowling in the night, in which the birds are wakened by a bell, and blinded by light, so as to be easily taken. – Cowel.
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