DCHP-3

hawk bell†

Fur Trade, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a small spherical bell, originally used in falconry, much prized by the Indians as ornaments.

Quotations

1684
. . . one Rest for a hand saw, 250 Hawkes bells, 1 pestell. . . .
1791
I also made makissins, or Indian shoes, of deer skins, drest and smoked to make the leather soft and pliable, and worked with porcupine quills and small beads, to which are sometimes suspended hawk bells.
1811
Account of the Goods now with us [includes] 7 groce of hawks Bells.
1913
. . . and hawk bells to jingle as they walked. . . .