2. Verb. (third-person singular of clunk) ¹
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Definition of Clunks
1. clunk [v] - See also: clunk
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clunks
Literary usage of Clunks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1875)
"... author of "Cushions and Corners," " Filling up the clunks," etc. With original
illustrations. ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1858)
"terrors could subdue ; and the truly enlightened Christian will not fail to
discern, even through the clunks of the historian's flippant skepticism, ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1818)
"It is, clunks he, the gracious Fairy, Who loved the Shepherd Lord to meet In his
wanderings solitary : Wild notes she ¡L his hearing sang, ..."
4. The Life of the Ancient Greeks: With Special Reference to Athens by Charles Burton Gulick (1902)
"... but since it was not conducted through a pipe, it must also have blown about
until it found its way through doors, clunks, and crevices. ..."
5. Art in Great Britain and Ireland by Walter Armstrong (1909)
"MAJOR clunks. (RAEBURN.) National Gallery, Edinburgh, Hoppner himself, fine
painter as he was, would never have produced the works for which the world ..."
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