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bell buoy
noun
- a buoy having a bell that is rung by the motion of the buoy.
bell buoy
noun
- a navigational buoy fitted with a bell, the clapper of which strikes when the waves move the buoy
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bell buoy1
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Example Sentences
Presently the major, booming away like a bell buoy, became aware that his audience had dwindled.
But he could feel it emerging from the mist just as a pilot sights the bell-buoy that marks his changing channel.
Far off, mournfully the bell-buoy sent in its blur of musical tolling across the moving sea-floor.
The dogged booming of a gun from a shore battery sounded lonely and remote as a bell buoy.
The bell buoy still clanging its message, now a false message indeed, was drifting out to sea.
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