Clanking
['klæŋkiŋ]
Definition
(adj.) having a hard nonresonant metallic sound; 'clanking chains'; 'the clanking arms of the soldiers near him' .
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Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clank
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Examples
- The noise was released, the little locomotive with her clanking steel connecting-rod emerged on the highroad, clanking sharply. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- A hasty suspicion seemed to strike Uriah; and, with a glance at Mr. Micawber, he went to it, and threw the doors clanking open. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The clanking of the engine-pumps, and the spirting and hissing of the water as it fell upon the blazing wood, added to the tremendous roar. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- I implored the colonel to let me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my cries. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Then the tanks would grind clanking up those two slopes and after them would go his two brigades. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The din of hammers, the rushing of steam, and the dead heavy clanking of engines, was the harsh music which arose from every quarter. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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