The payment for the bell ringer (bell ringer: a person who rings church bells) on special occasions such as weddings (wedding bells; wedding bells), deaths (striking the death knell), or funerals (funeral service). – Ringing of bells used to be a physically strenuous work, because a heavy clapper (clapper: the tongue of the bell, more precisely a metallic device that generates noise by the banging it against a bell) had to be attached to the bell by means of a rope. – See indulgence money, confession money, dispensation money, cathedral money, church money, conduct money, offering money, palliative money, St. Peter’s pence, procuration money, seminary money.
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