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Loud horn
Answer for the clue "Loud horn ", 6 letters:
klaxon
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Word definitions for klaxon in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"loud warning horn," 1908, originally on automobiles, said to have been named for the company that sold them (The Klaxon Company; distributor for Lovell-McConnell Mfg. Co., Newark, N.J.), but probably the company was named for the horn, which bore a word ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A loud electric horn or alarm. vb. (cx intransitive English) To produce a loud, siren-like wail.
Usage examples of klaxon.
As soon as the klaxon had sounded, and the vessel had begun its inertialess flight, he went into the locker room where the sergeant, who also served as toilet attendant, gave him the option of a cold shower for five monits or a hot one for twenty.
The intruder alert klaxon immediately began to sound, and Chekov gestured to Rand to mute the volume.
In the backseat the girls were agog, testing the seat springs, exploring the vase on its bracket between the doors and asking Elfred if it had a Klaxon, and would he toot it.
He jabbed the klaxon and heard it scream through the hull beneath him.
Should the scream of the alarm klaxon shatter the stillness he knew from experience that these same men, like the others who were resting throughout the boat, would be at their stations in seconds, some of them probably not even realizing how they had got there.
He could still remember his first boat, the warnings about getting a move on when the klaxon tore the place apart.
When the klaxon had sounded, however, he had found himself alone in his mess.
How many times had the klaxon screamed out from here, to the tilt of the deck and the fierce inrush of water?
Klaxon with their hands reaching up protectively into their helmets, the Master of Sinanju floated up to the Klaxon and clapped his hands three times delicately, as if trying to swat a mosquito buzzing the Klaxon horns.
An alarm klaxon is sounding, but the import of that washes over me, as if my mind is protecting me from it.
That klaxon is still shrieking, the sound of it like a drill penetrating my eardrums.
I can hear sounds now: fragments of words, the stuttering wail of a klaxon alarm, and a heartbeat thumping, thumping.
But the following morning, while it was still dark, they were awakened by the roar of the klaxon and he sat up in bed, wide eyed, as though coming out of a nightmare.
They were supposed to be in the air by dawn, and as the klaxon woke them, they could hear a multitude of engines churning somewhere in the mist.
A few moments later the klaxon sounded and they rose wearily, reaching for their gloves and helmets.