Meaning

1 senses
  1. Synonym of jingle bell.

More definitions
  • a bell attached to a sleigh, or to the harness of a horse that is pulling a sleigh

Examples

3 sentences
  1. The tinkles of sleigh bells among the snowy hills came like elfin chimes through the frosty air.

  2. Tinkles of sleigh bells and distant laughter, that seemed like the mirth of wood elves, came from every quarter.

  3. We dreamed of Santa Claus, or if we awoke in the night, we listened for the jingling of his sleigh-bells.

    deWir träumten vom Weihnachtsmann, und wenn wir des Nachts aufwachten, lauschten wir, ob nicht seine Schlittenglocken klingelten. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Forms

plural: sleigh bells
Singularsleigh bell
Pluralsleigh bells

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a bell attached to a sleigh, or to the harness of a horse that is pulling a sleigh:cascabel

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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