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conkerbill n also conkerbell. Cp OED cock-bell 3 'an icicle' obs
exc dial; EDD clinker sb3: clinker-bell; cock-bell; conkerbell D Co.
(a) Icicle; ICE-CANDLE; (b) something hanging down from an object, as mucus from the
nose, balls of dung in animal fur.
[c1894] PANL P4/14, pp. 197-8
An icicle, hanging from the eaves of a house, or from a horse's nose, is a conkerbill.
1924 ENGLAND 137 Seal flesh in the life-boats made long lines of red 'conkerbills'
[icicles] festoon the boats' keels with fringes of frozen blood. 1937 DEVINE 15 ~ s.
Icicles depending from the eaves of a house. T 12-64 The conkerbells were the balls of
manure that stuck to the wool in a sheep and didn't fall off. P 182-77 Conkerbells:
[streams] hanging from nose, usually of small child playing outdoors, especially in
winter.
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