Peal

Noun

 * 1) A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, laughter, of a multitude, etc.
 * 2) * 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
 * And, falling on a bench, he laughed until the tears ran down his cheeks, I could not help joining; and we laughed together, peal after peal...

Verb

 * 1) To sound with a peal or peals.
 * 2) * 1864: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Christmas Bells
 * Then pealed the bells more loud and deep...
 * 1) * 1939: Bing Crosby, In My Merry Oldsmobile
 * To the church we'll swiftly steal, then our wedding bells will peal,
 * You can go as far you like with me, in my merry Oldsmobile.
 * 1) * 2006: New York Times
 * The bell pealed 20 times, clanging into the dusk as Mr. Bush’s motorcade drove off.

Adjectives for Peal
silvery; yawning; merry; angry; repeated; strange; fearful; terrific; dismal; tuneful; mellowing; full-hearted; paschal; joyous; hideous; solemn; spasmodic; tremendous: thrilling; dreadful.

Adverbs for Peal
melodiously; softly; gently; gaily; joyously; festively; merrily; angrily; terrifically; solemnly; spasmodically.

Thesaurus
awake the dead, bay, beep, bell, blare, blast, blast the ear, blat, blow, blow the horn, bong, boom, booming, bray, bugle, cannonade, carillon, change ringing, chime, chiming, chink, clamor, clang, clanging, clangor, clank, clanking, clap, clarion, clink, crash, crescendo, deafen, din, ding, ding-a-ling, dingdong, dinging, dingle, dong, donging, fanfare, fill the air, flourish of trumpets, gong, growl, grumble, honk, jangle, jingle, jingle-jangle, jinglejangle, jingling, knell, knelling, peal ringing, pealing, pipe, rattle the windows, rend the air, rend the ears, resonate, resound, reverberate, reverberation, ring, ring changes, ringing, rise, roar, rock the sky, roll, rumble, shriek, sound, sound a knell, sound a tattoo, sound taps, split the eardrums, split the ears, squeal, startle the echoes, stun, surge, swell, tantara, tantarara, taps, tarantara, tattoo, thunder, ting, ting-a-ling, tingle, tingling, tink, tinkle, tinkling, tinnitus, tintinnabulate, toll, tolling, toot, tootle, trumpet, trumpet blast, trumpet call, tweedle, whistle, wind

Pronunciation

 * Homophones: peel
 * Homophones: peel

Noun

 * Finnish: kumina, kumu, jylinä, jyly, jyrinä, jyrähdys


 * Japanese: raimei, a "thunderclap"

Verb

 * Finnish: kumistaa, soittaa ; kumista, soida

Anagrams

 * leap
 * pale
 * plea

Preposition
peal


 * 1) on

Etymology
From the noun pea