Definition of "night-bell" [night-bell]

• A bell for use at night, as in rousing a physician or an apothecary. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "When the man from The Two Robins rang the night-bell, I was just thinking of going to bed."
• "The night-bell which had been fixed when Fitzpiers first took up his residence there still remained; but as it had fallen into disuse with the collapse of his practice, and his elopement, she did not venture to pull it now."
• "He had his night-bell altered and placed in the room in which the good old lady had grumbled for many a long year, and he slept in the great large bed there."