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tap bell

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noun

  1. a signal bell giving a single ring, as one announcing the approach to a certain floor of an elevator.

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Every student is expected to be in his place and be ready for work on his studies, before the tap bell is heard at 8:00 a. m.,

From The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy by Flickinger, Robert Elliott

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