http://wordie.org/words/bell Comments for the word 'Bell' http://wordie.org http://wordie.org/words/bell#comments A <a href="/words/breastplate">breastplate</a> (ornamental) knot. Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:30:52 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/bell#comments http://wordie.org/words/bell#comments On ships at sea, each <a href="/words/watch">watch</a> (which lasted 4 hours) is divided into 8 bells; thus, one bell equals 30 minutes. Every 30 minutes, the ship's bell sounds the number of bells elapsed since the start of the watch. Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:27:13 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/bell#comments