Definition of "vesper-bell" []

• The bell that summons to vespers. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The vesper-bell, at length, summoned her to prepare for mass, and she descended to her cell to await the arrival of her conductress."
• "While they stepped carefully on, they heard the vesper-bell of a convent."
• "“Then why should you shackle poor Gurth, uncle, for the fault of his dog Fangs? for I dare be sworn we lost not a minute by the way, when we had got our herd together, which Fangs did not manage until we heard the vesper-bell.”"