peal

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A ringing of a set of bells, especially a change or set of changes rung on bells.
2. n. A set of bells tuned to each other; a chime.
3. n. A loud burst of noise: peals of laughter.
4. v. To sound in a peal; ring.
5. v. To sound loudly and sonorously.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts of a multitude, etc.
2. n. A set of bells tuned to one another; a chime or carillon; a ring. The number of bells varies widely; they are usually arranged in diatonic order, so as to afford opportunity for playing melodies. See carillon,1.
3. n. A musical phrase or figure played on a set of bells, properly a scale or part of a scale played up or down, but also applied to any melodic figure; a change.
4. To sound loudly; resound: as, the pealing organ.
5. To assail with noise.
6. To utter loudly and sonorously; cause to ring or sound; celebrate.
7. To stir or agitate.
8. To appeal.
9. n. Appeal; plaint; accusation.
10. n. See peel.
11. An obsolete variant of pile.
12. n. A name used in England for different species of the genus Salmo, as S. salar, the salmon, or S. cambricus, a trout found in England, Ireland, and Norway. The latter is also called sewin.

Wiktionary

1. n. A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, laughter, of a multitude, etc.
2. v. intransitive To sound with a peal or peals.
3. v. transitive To utter or sound loudly.
4. v. transitive To assail with noise.
5. v. UK, dialect To pour out.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Zoöl.), Prov. Eng. A small salmon; a grilse; a sewin.
2. v. obsolete To appeal.
3. n. A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, of a multitude, etc.
4. n. A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale; also, the changes rung on a set of bells.
5. v. To utter or give out loud sounds.
6. v. To resound; to echo.
7. v. To utter or give forth loudly; to cause to give out loud sounds; to noise abroad.
8. v. To assail with noise or loud sounds.
9. v. Prov. Eng. To pour out.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells)
2. v. ring recurrently
3. v. sound loudly and sonorously