[f. BELL v.4] The cry of a stag or buck at rutting time.
[The first quot. is possibly the verb.]
1510. Inscr. Wharncliffe Lodge, Sheffield, For his plesor to here the Hartes bel.
1862. C. P. Collyns, Notes Chase Wild Red Deer, iii. 60. What I had heard was the ‘bell’ of the stag, roaming in search of the hinds.
1865. F. Boyle, Dyaks of Borneo, 56. Few people in England know the melody of a wild buck’s bell in a quiet night.
