Definition of "cow-bell" [cow-bell]

• A bell (usually of a rounded oblong shape and dull, heavy tone) designed to be attached to the neck of a cow to indicate her whereabouts. (noun)
• An American name of the bladder-campion, Silene inflata. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "A humming bee hummed, a cow-bell tinkled, while some suspicious cracklings told of a secretly reconnoitering squirrel."
• "She reached the cow-bell and lay down on her face as she had been told, with feet in the air, crossed."
• "Victorine saw him slide away behind a screen, and looked at the little cow-bell."