TOCSIN


Meaning of TOCSIN in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

He was still there when the tocsin sounded.

I think he went on to the parapet and the tocsin was sounded to make him run.

Secondly, Mowbray was lured to his death by the tocsin sounding.

Some weeks later, the tocsin bell rang out throughout the fortress-monastery.

The bell was the tocsin in the Tower!

When the tocsin sounded I lurched out with the others to see what was wrong.

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