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Definition of Clank
1. Verb. Make a clank. "The train clanked through the village"
2. Noun. A loud resonant repeating noise. "He could hear the clang of distant bells"
Generic synonyms: Noise
Derivative terms: Clang, Clang, Clangor, Clangor, Clangorous, Clangour, Crash
Definition of Clank
1. n. A sharp, brief, ringing sound, made by a collision of metallic or other sonorous bodies; -- usually expressing a duller or less resounding sound than clang, and a deeper and stronger sound than clink.
2. v. t. To cause to sound with a clank; as, the prisoners clank their chains.
3. v. i. To sound with a clank.
Definition of Clank
1. Noun. A loud, hard sound of metal hitting metal, especially such a repetitive sound. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) To make a clanking sound ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Clank
1. to make a sharp, metallic sound [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clank
Literary usage of Clank
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Travels Through the Interior Parts of America: In a Series of Letters by Thomas Anburey (1789)
"... I may be with venomous reptiles, the clank of arms, and horrors of war, reft
allured that neither ..."
2. Travels of Four Years and a Half in the United States of America: During by John Davis (1909)
"His cry resembles Clink, clink, clank; which, should the mocking-bird presume to
imitate it, he flies and attacks the mimic for his insolence. ..."
3. The Glory and the Shame of England by Charles Edwards Lester (1845)
"They drop the hammer upon the anvil ; they pass from the clank of the factory,
and ask for bread ; it is not given : they will know why it is the English ..."
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