Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To sound with a peal or peals. · To utter or sound loudly. · To assail with noise. · To resound; to echo.
A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, laughter, of a multitude, etc. · A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale. · The changes rung on a set of bells; in the strict sense a full peal of at least 5040 changes.
From Middle English pele, peil, probably an apheretic variant of Middle English apel, appel, from Old French apel (“an appeal; pealing of bells”). Compare appeal.
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