Cloth or fabric strips used to clean or maintain bells; also dialectal term for bell clappers.
Compound of 'bell' plus 'rags,' likely a historical term for maintenance materials in bell-making or bell-ringing contexts.
The term is so obscure that even bell-ringers today rarely use it, suggesting it belonged to a specific regional trade vocabulary that has almost completely disappeared from English.
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