Usually means: Cord used to ring bell.
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  1. bell rope: Merriam-Webster
  2. bell rope: Collins English Dictionary
  3. bell-rope, bell rope: Wordnik
  4. bell rope: Wiktionary
  5. Bell rope: Dictionary.com
  6. bell rope: FreeDictionary.org
  7. Bell rope: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (bell rope)

noun:  (nautical) A short length of rope, spliced to the eye of the clapper of a ship's bell and by which it is struck.
noun:  A long length of rope attached by splicing to a church's bell, by which it is struck, and with a sally for holding it.
noun:  A rope used to ring a bell serving as an old-fashioned doorbell.
noun:  (obsolete, slang) A lovelock.

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