knoup: to toll the church bell; this observation bore reference to a belief that when, according to the rites of induction, a clergyman tolled the bells on being put into possession of his church, the number of years he would hold were foretold by the number of strokes on the bell.
(from: The Word Museum by Jeffrey Kacirk)
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