2. Verb. To make such a sound. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Clonk
1. to make a dull thumping sound [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clonk
Literary usage of Clonk
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hand-book of Literature and the Fine Arts: Comprising Complete and Accurate by George Ripley, Bayard Taylor (1852)
"... and other place», when they rail fur a repetition of a particular song, Ac.
ENDRO'MIS, a clonk made of warm • -.ч. • materials liko a blanket, ..."
2. The Analysis of the Hunting Field by Robert Smith Surtees, Henry Thomas Alken (1904)
"... putting a most deceitful little macintosh over his scarlet coat, would go
clonk, clonk, clonk, with his spurs on the flags the rest of the afternoon, ..."
3. The Southern Review (1832)
"In sucli weather you see every man holding the corner of his clonk, or a pocket
handkerchief to his mouth, and hurrying through the streets, without turning ..."
4. The Library of Choice Literature: Prose and Poetry Selected from the Most by Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon (1881)
"She was in rags—perfect rags all below the bit clonk ; and we found the bairn,
rowed in a checked apron, lying just behind the hedge. ..."
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