undern-bell

English

Noun

undern-bell

1. (dated, obsolete, historical) A bell rung to to mark the undern-song.
   • 1888, Thomas North, ‎William Beresford, English Bells and Bell Lore: A Book on Bells, page 187:

     At Stamford the signal for the commencement of the corn market was, in the reign of Edward IV, the ringing of the Undernone or Undern bell.

   • 1908, Edith Rickert, Early English Romances in Verse, page 74:

     When they rang the undern-bell, he was in London and not yet ready; and yet he won to Canterbury long ere evensong, riding fifty miles.