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Clank   /klæŋk/   Listen
noun
Clank  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. "But not in chains to pine, His spirit withered with tyeur clank."



verb
Clank  v. t.  (past & past part. clanked; pres. part. clanking)  To cause to sound with a clank; as, the prisoners clank their chains.



Clank  v. i.  To sound with a clank.






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"Clank" Quotes from Famous Books



... say, nothing to do but obey!" Colonel Landcraft blazed up in sudden explosion, after his manner, and set his heel down hard on the floor, making his sword clank in ...
— The Rustler of Wind River • G. W. Ogden

... to rank the summons ran, Bayonets rattle and clank of sabres began. With whetted steel the sturdy axe-men, Capless riflemen, horseless cavalry men. Formed on that plain in battle array, Butler leads to New Market heights ...
— The Black Phalanx - African American soldiers in the War of Independence, the - War of 1812, and the Civil War • Joseph T. Wilson

... braver than the rest, opposed the boy. "I dare not obey you," said the man; "your father would never forgive me if I let you go forth to be slain by that ferocious beast whose broken chains clank about his legs and whose huge trunk brings destruction to everything it strikes. You will be knocked down and trampled to death. This is ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 • Charles H. Sylvester

... The ominous clank of the chain pumps beat a sort of prelude to what happened next. The gunner burst out of the hatch with blood running down his face, shouting that the Richard was sinking, and yelling for quarter as he made for the ensign-staff on the poop, for the flag ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... last roused by the opening of the door. It was almost dark. Rising to his feet, he saw a number of men hustled into the shed. Ranged along one of the walls, they squatted on the floor, and for some minutes afterwards Desmond heard the clank of irons and the harsh grating of a key. Then a big Maratha came to him, searched him thoroughly, clapped iron bands upon his ankles, and locked the chains to staples in the wall. Soon the door was shut, barred, and locked, and Desmond found himself ...
— In Clive's Command - A Story of the Fight for India • Herbert Strang


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