Definition of "fire-bell" [fire-bell]

• A large bell used for sounding an alarm of fire. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Consider alarm clocks each cold winter morning That rudely arouse you with fire-bell warning."
• "Rounding the corner and passing in turn the fire-bell, the"
• "Once, one of the little houses on top of the hill had been struck by lightning, and the fire-bell had rung after everybody had gone to bed, making such a terrific noise that everybody got up again; and the house had first been nothing but flames that stretched miles up into the sky, and then was burnt down."