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CLANK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A loud resonant repeating noise
Example:
he could hear the clang of distant bells
Synonyms:
clang; clangor; clangoring; clangour; clank; clash; crash
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("clank" is a kind of...):
noise (sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound))
Derivation:
clank (make a clank)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they clank ... he / she / it clanks
Past simple: clanked
Past participle: clanked
-ing form: clanking
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make a clank
Example:
the train clanked through the village
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Hypernyms (to "clank" is one way to...):
go; sound (make a certain noise or sound)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
clank (a loud resonant repeating noise)
Context examples:
The rider was a stern-faced man, hard of mouth and dry of eye, with a heavy sword clanking at his side, and a stiff white bundle swathed in linen balanced across the pommel of his saddle.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Close at his heels came sixteen squires, all chosen from the highest families, and behind them rode twelve hundred English knights, with gleam of steel and tossing of plumes, their harness jingling, their long straight swords clanking against their stirrup-irons, and the beat of their chargers' hoofs like the low deep roar of the sea upon the shore.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As they passed over the drawbridge, Alleyne marked the gleam of arms in the embrasures to right and left, and they had scarce set foot upon the causeway ere a hoarse blare burst from a bugle, and, with screech of hinge and clank of chain, the ponderous bridge swung up into the air, drawn by unseen hands.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
