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  • noun A bell on a sleigh.

Etymologies

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sleigh +‎ bell

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Examples

  • Made these sleighbell decorations for my deer mounts with stuff i found at the dollar store.

    Field & Stream 2009

  • But last month I noticed I was no longer thrilled to the sweet silver sleighbell-ly music that seems to enthrall America this time of year.

    Wendy Block: Humbug -- I Wish 2009

  • Like the folks with the sleighbell necklaces (bought one for the wife, to go with her elf hat), and the Mennonite baked goods.

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2007

  • As he fell, and fell, and fell, all the hollow, distant sounds of the jail, fragments of Spanish from the other cells, a toilet flushing, the sleighbell jingle of chains and fetters, washed over him with a roar like breaking waves.

    The Girls He Adored Jonathan Nasaw 2001

  • As he fell, and fell, and fell, all the hollow, distant sounds of the jail, fragments of Spanish from the other cells, a toilet flushing, the sleighbell jingle of chains and fetters, washed over him with a roar like breaking waves.

    The Girls He Adored Jonathan Nasaw 2001

  • As he fell, and fell, and fell, all the hollow, distant sounds of the jail, fragments of Spanish from the other cells, a toilet flushing, the sleighbell jingle of chains and fetters, washed over him with a roar like breaking waves.

    The Girls He Adored Jonathan Nasaw 2001

  • The Unicorn Trade sleighbell cloak and curly-toed slippers.

    The Unicorn Trade Anderson, Poul and Karen 1984

  • It was Lucy, gayly offering a silver sleighbell decked with white ribbon.

    The Magnificent Ambersons; illustrated by Arthur William Brown 1918

  • And he bowed her into her chair; then turned and walked away, dropping the sleighbell haughtily into his trousers 'pocket.

    The Magnificent Ambersons; illustrated by Arthur William Brown 1918

  • And he bowed her into her chair; then turned and walked away, dropping the sleighbell haughtily into his trousers’ pocket.

    Chapter 9 1918

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