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Clanking

Clank \Clank\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clanked; p. pr. & vb. n. Clanking.] To cause to sound with a clank; as, the prisoners clank their chains.

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clanking

n. A noise that clanks. vb. (present participle of clank English)

WordNet
clanking

adj. having a hard nonresonant metallic sound; "clanking chains"; "the clanking arms of the soldiers near him"

Usage examples of "clanking".

Tappings and clankings and strange rhythmic creakings awoke as the intrepid hirer pedalled out into the country.

After what appeared to be an infinity of rumblings and clankings, and more stone corridors, they lurched to a stop.

Then he saw him, and rose and rushed, and the clankings of his shoe-soles were loud.

Amidst the clankings, groanings and wheezings emitted by the organ I thought I detected an excerpt from La Boheme, although heaven knew that Puccini never made the dying Mimi suffer the way she would have suffered had she been in the Rembrandtplein that night.