Obs. Forms: 5 wakerrell, 6 wag(g)erell, wak(e)rell(e, (wakeryng), 7 wackerell. [App. f. WAKER sb. + -EL.] The name given in Kent to a church bell (? the sanctus bell). Also wakerell bell, rope.
1485. Churchw. Acc. St. Dunstan’s, Canterb., in Archæol. Cant., XVI. 292. Item for a rope for the wakerrell, iij d. Ibid. (1545), XVII. 107. Item payde for ye wakerell rope, v d. Ibid. (1552), VIII. 115. Item iij bells in the Steple & a waggerell bell.
1602. Church-w. Presentm., in N. & Q., Ser. IX. VIII. 405/2. We want one bell and a wackerell, which were sold away [etc.].
